News:
August 5, 2013
Member of Parliament for Mpohor in the Western Region, Alex Agyekum has urged examiners marking the scripts of candidates who sat for the 2013 BECE to be meticulous while marking the exams papers.
According to him, the system where markers are paid by the number of papers they have been able to mark, is creating a situation where some of them in anticipation of the fat monies they expect to make at the end of the marking session just rush through the scripts without paying detailed attention to what answers the candidates have written.
In an interview, Hon. Alex Agyekum stated that there was the need for the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) to take a second look at the current system, to avoid a situation where the students are unduly marked down by the some examiners.
‘In some instances certain examiners waste no time in jettisoning answer sheets which appears not to have legible writings on it without trying to get the thoughts of the student, simply because that will waste their time and disallow them from marking more papers.
Hon. Alex Agyekum further called on WAEC to strengthen its security measures to avoid the leakage of examination papers which result in cancelation, adding that when this happens, asking the students to re-sit another paper amounts to infringing on the students right and further disorganizes the students.
Kwadwo Anim/Ghanamps.gov.gh