General Comments

The standard of the paper compared favourably with those of previous years. The questions were straight forward and also covered wide range of the syllabus. The marking was exhaustive and flexible.

The performance of the candidates was better than the previous year with a candidates population of 14,254 which had a raw mean score of 32 and standard deviation of 11.66 against had a raw mean score of 26 and standard deviation of 12.81 for the School Candidates 2016 WASSCE which had a candidates population of 14,096.