Zonal coordinator West African Examination Council Mr. Gershon Dandak has revealed that the council achieved tremendous success to curtail exam malpractices in the 2018 WAEC.
Mr. Dandak who
disclosed this to Theportcitynews.com reporter, Tina Stephen, in an interview at the
WAEC secretariat, Port Harcourt, said the level of extortion reduced drastically
unlike previous WACE examinations.
According to him, the success was achieved with the support of the state Ministry of Education
through its various campaign strategies to eradicate exam malpractice stressing
that some supervisors who were caught during examination malpratice will face the
full weight of the law.
He cautioned students and parents to desist from inducing supervisors and proprietors in any form that will encourage exam malpractice, saying that all forms of collusion will be detected during and after the WACE examination.
“All those who extort the children during WACE are being more careful than before. Parent should continue to resist any attempt to induce any official either supervisor, WACE staff or any other monitoring team. The children paid for the exam, it is their right and we must conduct the exams for them in the approved centers.
“They should also resist any attempt by their wards, sometimes these wards are responsible in asking for permission to migrate to a village, remote areas to take examinations and they should not give in to the temptation of anybody deceiving them that they could assist them with answers or solutions”
He urged the students to be confident and study hard to pass, adding that the council is deploying maximum use of item differential profile, a technology to checkmate exam malpractice in the 2018 WACE.
He also cautioned supervisors to do the job as a service to their mother land.
“WAEC examination is not a means to extort students. Supervisors should adhere strictly to the rules governing the examination, because the state ministry of education has given us its assurance to discipline any erring supervisor, and I can assure you that the council will report any erring supervisor to the ministry”
