General Comments

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

Candidates’ performance was poorer than that of the previous year. A total of 4,307 candidates sat for the paper with a raw mean score of 30 and a standard deviation of 13.89 as against a raw mean score of 37 and a standard deviation of 16.31 recorded in the WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2019 – First Series with candidates’ population of 4,612.