2026 WASSCE begins on Wednesday with Oral English
The 2026 WASSCE begins on Wednesday with Oral English. Final-year senior high school (SHS) students from Ghana officially rejoin their West African counterparts to write the May-June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC), beginning with Oral English.
In all, 509,862 students will sit for this year's WASSCE-SC across the country, according to statistics made available by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to the Daily Graphic. The candidates comprise 225,274 males and 284,588 females. The 2026 version began with the practical sessions and project work for Visual Arts and Home Economics, among others. All candidates will participate in tomorrow's Oral English, which Ghanaian candidates have written exclusively in the past five years.
The Ashanti Region leads with 127,702 candidates, comprising 57,885 males and 69,817 females. The Eastern Region follows with 70,099 candidates, made up of 29,810 males and 40,289 females, with the Bono, Bono East and Ahafo regions featuring 67,739 candidates (29,658 males and 38,081 females). Candidates from the Central Region are 61,303, while 22,418 males and 25,681 females, totalling 48,099, will sit in the Greater Accra Region. Volta Region candidates are 41,622 (19,261 males and 22,361 females), and that of Oti Region and Western North
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Over half a million final-year SHS students in Ghana are set to participate in the 2026 WASSCE-SC, beginning with Oral English. This marks Ghana's return to the regional May-June examination schedule - but what challenges might students face?
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