The West African Examinations Council has reaffirmed its plan to migrate the West African Senior School Certificate Examination to a fully computer-based testing format by 2026.
Head of WAECâs National Office, Dr. Amos Dangut, gave the assurance on Tuesday during a sensitisation meeting with members of the National Assembly Committee on Education in Abuja.
He said the transition, which began with private candidates in 2024, has already made âsignificant progressâ and will be scaled up nationwide ahead of next yearâs deadline.
âWe have conducted five exams already, one for private candidates and one for school candidates, and by 2026, deployment will be massive,â he said.
Speaking on concerns about infrastructure and cyber risks, Dangut assured stakeholders that WAEC had successfully conducted exams in hard-to-reach areas without disruptions.
He explained that candidatesâ performances in CBT had been âempirically betterâ than in paper-based tests.
Recall that on the 9th of January 2024, reports that the examination body in 2024 dumped the paper and pencil test model and adopted the computer-based test mode for the conduct of the Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates.
WAEC seeks to build on the previous implementation to include general school candidates.
Also, on 22nd July 2025, the Federal Government revealed that privately-owned Computer-Based Test centres and others belonging to public institutions would be fully deployed in the conduct of the school-based Senior School Certificate Examination by next year.
Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, speaking on the issues, said, âWAEC and NECO exams are school-based exams being conducted at their schools. No, we will move away from that.
âIt is going to be like (the way) JAMB exams are being conducted at CBT centres. We have thousands of CBT centres across the nation.
âThose are the centres that we are going to use. Itâs not the case that students do not have the facilities.”
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