General Comments

The paper compared favourably well with those of previous years. The standard was good marking scheme was exhaustive and rubrics were clear.

The performance of the candidates was better than that of the previous year with a raw mean score of 20 and standard deviation of 8.54 this year when compared to a raw mean score of 18 and a standard deviation of 6.00 for the WASSCE for PC 2017. The total population of candidates that sat this examination was 87,372.