About seven final-year students at Labone Senior High School(SHS) were prevented from writing the Social Studies paper in the ongoing West Africa School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
This was after they arrived late for the exams on Monday morning.
Per the rules of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), the candidates are supposed to be seated 30 minutes before the start of the exams.
However, the students according to reports by Adom News’ Kodwo Mensah Aboroampa who was on routine monitoring with officials of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) arrived after an hour into the exams.
Some of the students attributed their lateness to vehicular traffic while commuting from their homes to the school.
The headmistress, Mrs Rejoice Akua Acorlor, who expressed worry over the situation however, emphasised the need for the rules of the examination to be adhered to.
“When the paper starts, we shouldn’t let the students in. These students this is not the first time, and they have come a whole one hour after the start of the paper so I cannot in any way allow them. I am not happy about it, but this is the situation I find myself in,” she told the media.
This was on the back of a similar situation that occurred at the Osu Presbyterian Senior High School(SHS) where over 15 students were nearly barred for being late.
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