General Comments

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

The performance of the candidates was better than the previous year with candidates population of 1,259 which had a raw mean score of 33 and standard deviation of 10.30 as against the WASSCE for the Private Candidates 2017 which had a candidates population of 2,059 with a raw mean score of 29 and standard deviation of 13.08.