A 70th Year Old Waec.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), a non-profit-making organization, with its headquarters in Accra, Ghana, was established in 1952 after the Governments of Ghana (then Gold Coast), Nigeria, Sierra Leone and The Gambia enacted the West African Examinations Council Ordinances in 1951. Liberia became the fifth member of the Council in 1974. The enactment of the Ordinances was based on the Jeffrey Report, which strongly supported the proposal for the setting up of a regional examining board to harmonize and standardize pre-university assessment procedures in the then British West Africa.
The main objectives of the Council are:
To conduct examinations in the public interest
To award certificates, provided that the certificates did not represent lower standards of attainment than equivalent certificates of examining authorities in the United Kingdom.
Today I stood in front of my students to address them vividly about the reason for establishing Waec and why they must Obey the principles of WAEC .
I said " Good morning students and they all replied " Good morning sir" (the world "Sir" shows that they respected me even though many of them are older than me). Well we are happy to have you here and it's a good day today to commence fully in your examination. Your set marked Waec 70th year old in the History of West Africa and this is an opportunity for you to feel privileged to the examination with passion.
I want to believe many of you have fully prepared academically, morally and nervously. Without disrespecting anyone, be humbled and submissive to any invigilator or supervisor.
Follow every instructions orally and verbally if you don't understand any sentence or grammar kindly raise your hand and ask the person in charge. Don't go in with exhibit I mean anything that will implicate you.
I wish you the best of lucks over your examinations. Thank you"
Students were surprised with the addresses they all clapped and nod heads quiet well and we're felt encourage to write the exam wholeheartedly.
" Okay okay!!! That's alright now I'm going to check each and everyone of you, now be on a queue".
The check took me 15minutes because they were many. Everyone walked in to the examination all and sat comfortably waiting for invigilator to start giving the exam questions and other necessary materials.
Examination duration extended over 2hours and few minutes..
The examination today was successful done and students couldn't wait for the next examination.