The standard of the paper compared favorably with those of previous years. The questions  were straight forward, clearly itemized and covered a wide range of the syllabus.  The marking scheme was flexible and exhaustive The performance of the candidates was better than the previous year with candidate’s population of 27,013 which had a raw mean score of 26 and standard deviation of 10.54 against a raw mean score of 24 and standard deviation of 11.58 for the May/June 2012 WASSCE which had a candidates population 26,277.