General Comments

      The standard of the paper compared favourably with those of previous years. The                
questions were clearly itemized, unambiguous and comprehensive.  The marking scheme
was flexible and exhaustive and the rubrics were clear.

Candidates’ performance was slightly better than that of the previous year.  A total of 484,051 candidates sat for the paper with a raw mean score of 37 and a standard deviation of 16.49 as against a raw mean score of 36 and a standard deviation of 15.94 recorded in the May/June 2015 WASSCE with candidates’ population of 575,831.