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An educational technology consultant and an examiner, Ernest Ato Bentil, has revealed that some candidates writing examination insert love notes and phone numbers in their answer booklets instead of answering questions.
According to a report by 3news.com, he made this known during an interview on Connect FM on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
Entire results of 653 candidates cancelled as WAEC releases WASSCE 2025 provisional results
“As an examiner, sometimes you will open the answer booklet and realize the candidate did not write anything. There was a time I opened the booklet of a female candidate and saw a note; she had written, ‘I’m a beautiful girl and had added her phone number to it”, he noted.
The examiner described the practice as worrying and a symptom of deeper problems within the country’s educational structure.
WAEC cancels subject results of over 6,000 candidates in 2025 WASSCE
“The challenge we are having in our education system currently is the foundation of the students. We must strengthen the base of our education system. Most of our students suffer in the Junior High School (JHS) levels because their foundation in the upper primary level was weak
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results for the 2025 West African Senior High School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates.
The results of 6,295 candidates have been cancelled for sending foreign materials like prepared notes, textbooks and printed materials into the examination halls.
In a statement WAEC also indicated that the subject results of 908 and the entire results of 158 candidates have been withheld for various suspected offences.
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