The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) don say computer-based examinations dey help reduce exam malpractice, as more than 56,000 candidates write the 2026 Second Series West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for Private Candidates across Nigeria.
Head of WAEC National Office for Nigeria, Suleiman Danlami Kum, make this disclosure during an inspection of the English Language examination for WAEC Training and Testing Centre for Ogba, Ikeja, Lagos.
Danlami say security checks before candidates enter examination halls don help prevent malpractice, as officials discover prohibited material with one candidate during the inspection, including an item wey the candidate hide inside im socks.
“We don't set a trap for them. We want to prevent it,” na wetin e tell journalists, explaining say the aim na to stop malpractice before e happen.
E maintain say computer-based testing don come to stay, adding say WAEC don dey improve the system since e introduce computer-based WASSCE for 2024.
According to am, more than 22,000 candidates register for the examination for Lagos, including about 50 walk-in candidates wey register to write the English Language paper.
E say more than 500 candidates dey write the examination for the Ogba computer-based testing centre, while the number of candidates wey each centre fit accommodate depend on im capacity.
On reports say some schools dey charge as much as ₦180,000 for examination registration, Danlami say the Federal Ministry of Education dey work to address arbitrary increases in fees charged by schools.
E also urge candidates to study hard and make use of WAEC past questions, marking schemes and chief examiners’ reports to improve their performance.
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