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 6372 which had a raw mean score of 25 and standard deviation of 08.77 against had a raw mean score of 18 and standard deviation of 08.37 for the School Candidates 2016 WASSCE which had a candidates population of 6643.