General comments on the paper as a whole

The standard of the paper was good and compared favourably with those of previous years. The marking scheme was fair to the candidates and of good quality.

The performance of candidates this year was better than that of last year with a raw mean score of 33 and standard deviation of 12.33 when compared to a raw mean score of 29 and standard deviation of 14.83 for WASSCE (PC2) 2018. The total number of candidates that sat the examination was 74,379.