The Ghana Education Service has procured 400,000 sets of questions and answer booklets from the West African Examination Council (WAEC), for distribution to the first batch of beneficiaries of the Free Senior High School Policy.
According to the Head of Public Affairs at the Ministry of Education, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, the procurement of the past questions was needful since it will guide the students in their preparations and help them excel in their upcoming exams in April, 2020.
“It is geared towards improving the kind of education that we have and the learning outcomes that we have been receiving from WAEC over the years. It is the commitment or it is the anticipation of government that we are going to have our first set of free senior high school education students which we enrolled in 2017 who are going to write their WASSCE in 2020. And we are hoping that we should be able to support them so that they will come out with flying colours,” he said in an interview on Accra-based radio station, Citi FM.
“So, what we have been able to procure for them, that is the 400,000 sets of pass questions that we have are going to be given to all Senior High School students is supposed to help them, to guide them as to whatever they are going to learn so that they will pass their examination and come out with flying colours,” he added.
Meanwhile, Ranking Member on Parliament’s Education Committee, Peter Nortsu Kotoe, is questioning the rationale behind the move and the budgetary provision made, for the past examination questions procured for Senior High Students preparing to sit the West Africa Senior School Examination (WASSCE).
He says that the move is improper.
“In the first place what is the budgetary allocation for it because as far as I know, in 2019 there was nothing like that in the budget of the Ghana Education Service or Ministry of Education to procure such learning materials for students in senior high schools,” he stated.
“This is been done because government failed to supply the needed textbooks to senior high schools. It is not morally good for government to do that. Yours, is to provide the learning and teaching materials for teachers to teach and prepare the students for examination. Are they preparing them only for examination or for life?” he added.
The Ghana Education Service Director General, Professor Kwasi Opoku Amankwah on Monday,25th November,2019 disclosed the procurement of 400 thousand sets of past questions and answer booklets for the first batch of the free SHS policy sitting the exams next April.
Source: Daily Graphic
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SO HAVING PAST QUESTIONS TO HELP ONE PREPARE FOR EXAMS IS A SIN ABI? IN FACT WE TALK TOO MUCH. A NATION OF TALKERS AND COMPLAINERS
This government would just be dreaming free SHS everyday before they realised they are out of power. Who told you students don't have questions and answers books for each subject. Majority have them but studying is a problem.
Why are we doing these things to ourselves? How much will past questions cost a whole country? Whoever said the questions will be repeated anyway? Village folks may not have access to some of these basic things Accra people take for granted. If previous governments didn't do does it mean we should not do? Every parents wish is that their kids pass exams. Past questions are a guide to help you focus well no one has said they are substitutes. We worry ourselves on nonfa things. Accra is in filth the media is NOT talking about it Helping students to pass exams is our wahala. Anokwa
TRUTH BE TOLD THE EARLY WE SPEAK THE TRUTH THAT THIS CURRENT GOVERNMENT IS GRADUALLY SINKING THIS COUNTRY. THE GOVERNMENT IS NOW BUYING PAST QUESTION INSTEAD OF PAYING ATTENTION TO THE PRACTICAL TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES WHICH WILL PREPARE THE MINDS OF OUR CHILDREN. PASSING EXAMS IS ONE THING AND LEARNING TO ACQUIRE KNOWLEDGE IS WHY WE HAVE TO TEACH IN CLASS. THIS WHOLE THING HAS COME ABOUT BECAUSE THE KIDS HAVE BEEN THOUGHT NOTHING SO FAR DUE TO THE HASTY APPROACH THIS WHOLE FREE EDUCATION THING IS BEING DONE.
BUYING APOR IN DISGUISE AS PAST QUESTION PAPERS !!!...... HMMMM, APOR KRONKRONG !!
laughable...........doing everything under the sun to make sure free SHS student pass exams to prove a point. if you know your policy is working well, why buy students past question. shameful! thus far we've come!
Ei, so, now government is buying past questions and answers to the secondary schools?. I strongly think this will open WAEC up for people to buy the examination questions proper......