The standard of the paper was within the reach of the candidates and compared
           well with those of previous years. The questions were clearly stated in simple  comprehensible language and  covered satisfactorily the expected various levels of thinking.  Also the coverage of the syllabus was enormous.  The rubric were clear and unambiguous.  

           The paper tested among others candidates:

• Understanding of phenomena, definitions, laws and concepts;
• Skills to recognize physics concepts in everyday life;
• Analysis and evaluation of given data;
• Computational, psychomotive skills.

            
            The marking schemes was detailed and mark distribution was adequate.   The performance of the candidates was a little bit better compared to that of last year.  The candidates population of 132,006 recorded a raw mean score of 11 and a standard deviation of 06.00 as against a raw mean score of 10 and a standard deviation of 05.74 in the November/December 2012 WASSCE with a candidature of 167986.