
2016 WASSCE results show improvement – Jinapor
Statistics and data available indicate that results of
this year’s West African Senior Secondary School
Certificate Examination (WASSCE) have witnessed a
significant improvement but there is still more work to
be done, Dr Ahmed Jinapor, a lecturer at the University
of Education, Winneba, has said.
Concerns have been expressed by chiefs, politicians
and educationists about the 2016 WASSCE results
released by the West African Examinations Council
(WAEC) on Tuesday August 9.
According to WAEC, only 53.19 percent of students
who sat for the WASSCE passed in English, with only
32.83 percent passing in Core Mathematics.
Additionally, only 48.48% of students secured passes in
Integrated Science.
It has emerged that less than half of the 247,262
students who sat for the examination obtained the
minimum grades to gain admission into tertiary
institutions.
Although some Ghanaians believe these results are the
worst in recent years, Dr Jinapor said the outcome of
the 2016 WASSCE was an improvement on previous
years’ though he was quick to add that the marginally
better performance of students was still not the best.
Speaking on TV3’s New Day on Saturday August 13, he
said: “If you look at data that is being provided, 2016,
2015, [and] 2014, you will realise that there has been
some improvement. The data shows that there has
been an improvement, but, like it or hate it,
notwithstanding the improvement that we have chalked
within the past years using 2016 as a reference point,
the result is not the best because we are talking about
53 per cent passing…
“If you have 53 per cent [passing]… what it means is
[that] at the end of the day, over 40 per cent cannot
move onto the next stage.”