The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is constantly improving the integrity and security of its exams to prevent misconduct.
Currently, the West Africa Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is ongoing, having started on Monday, August 1.
Head of Public Affairs of the Council Agnes Teye Cudjoe stated that additional depots will be set up for particularly private materials to protect the sanctity of the question paper packs.
She disclosed this in an interview with journalists on Monday, August 22 about the conduct of the exams thus far.
According to reports, members of the Ghana Police Service are on duty around-the-clock to secure these depots.
In addition, combination padlocks with numbers will be added to regular padlocks, and the codes will only be made available for a short period of time before being sent out.
“The Council has put in place a number of measures to guarantee test security,” she said.
“These include collaboration with the National Intelligence Bureau, NIB, to monitor the printing of question papers, working closely with a number of security agencies to track and arrest dealers and operators of rogue websites, inspection of all depots nationwide and depots that needed further fortification have been duly attended to.
“Serialisation of some question papers, movement of question papers from strong rooms to depots in batches, creation of additional depots for the storage of confidential materials to ensure that the depots are located close to schools to prevent the situation where schools start late or question papers are released to them early, use of number combination padlocks in addition to ordinary padlocks for all security bags containing question paper packets and these combination padlocks you cannot open them unless the codes are sent to the depot keepers.”
