General Comments

The standard of the paper was high and compared favorably with those of previous years. The questions were of a high standard; well framed and covered a wide area of the syllabus. The marking scheme was exhaustive.

The performance of candidates was better that that of last year with a raw mean score of 31 and standard deviation of 11.79 compared to a raw mean score of 21 and standard deviation of 10.34 for May/June 2015 WASSCE. The total number of candidates that sat for the examination was 1,087,921