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 1,228 which had a raw mean score of 20 and standard deviation of 05.74 against a raw mean score of 19 and standard deviation of 06.16 for the Private Candidates 2016 WASSCE which had a candidates population of 1,089.