The 2026 edition of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, popularly known as WASSCE, officially begins today across Ghana and other West African countries, with candidates sitting for oral and practical components of selected subjects.
A total of 473,658 final-year senior high school (SHS) students from Ghana will join their counterparts from four other West African member countries to sit the 2026 May-June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC).
The decision to rejoin Liberia, The Gambia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone for the international examination this year follows five years of taking the Ghana-only version due to the COVID-19 outbreak disruption.
The Ghanaian candidates comprise 248,461 males and 225,197 females from 1,020 public and private second cycle schools, representing a 2.58 per cent increase over last year’s figure of 461,736.
