General Comments

The standard of the paper compared favourably with those of previous years. The questions were  
unambiguous and comprehensive.  The marking scheme was flexible and exhaustive while the  
rubrics were clear.

Candidates’ performance was poorer than that of the previous year. A total of 27,156 candidates sat for the paper with a raw mean score of 28 and a standard deviation of 14.59 as against a raw mean score of 35 and a standard deviation of 16.91 recorded in the WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2021 – Second Series with candidates’ population of 16,951.