General Comments

The standard of the paper compared favorably with those of previous years. The questions were straightforward, clear and fair. The marking scheme was exhaustive and clear.

The performance of candidates was better that that of last year with a raw mean score of and standard deviation of compared to a raw mean score of 31 and standard deviation of 11.79 for WASSCE for SC 2016. The total number of candidates that sat the examination was 1,087,921