A previous Executive-Common of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Charles Aheto-Tsegah, has said the decay in execution of understudies in this year’s WASSCE, when compared with 2020, can be credited to the laxity in learning approaches which in turn influenced the result.

“There's something that a parcel of individuals have not been looking at. The Free SHS presented a certain mindset among the children. That mindset had to be cured and it took a long time for instructors in numerous schools to be able to cure them. The mindset is; it is free so we are going to go to school.”

He famous that the free concept related with approach has driven to “the laissez faire demeanor when it comes to the way the understudies approach the examinations.”

Mr Aheto-Tsegah was talking in an meet on Prime Morning on Monday, December 13. The dialog was on the execution of candidates within the 2021 WASSCE vis a vis that of the 2020 candidates. He demonstrated that “there were a parcel of regulatory issues that influenced the total relationship between instructors and understudies” which brought about within the moo execution of WASSCE candidates in Center Arithmetic and English Dialect. “The kind of teach that you simply and I went through when we were in school cannot be said to be existing in our schools nowadays. In this manner, that laxity itself has been a fantod in terms of the way understudies learn and the way they approach learning,” he told Benjamin Akakpo.

The West African Examination Chamber (WAEC), in a press articulation reporting the discharge of the 2021 WASCCE comes about, uncovered that 54.08 per cent of the candidates exceeded expectations in English Dialect compared to 57.34 per cent who passed in 2020. Concurring to the Board’s Head of Open Undertakings, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, approximately 65.71 per cent of the candidates exceeded expectations in Arithmetic last year. The figure, be that as it may, declined to 54.11 per cent in 2021.

This infers that over 45 per cent of the candidates who sat for the 2021 WASSCE fizzled Science and English Dialect, the two key center subjects, required to secure confirmation into the college.

Mr. Charles Aheto-Tsegah faulted the marvel on what he portrayed as need of satisfactory educating and learning interventions.

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