Final-year senior high school (SHS) students from Ghana officially rejoin their West African counterparts tomorrow to write the May-June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC), beginning with Oral English..

In all, 509,862 students will sit for this year’s WASSCE-SC across the country, statistics made available by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to the Daily Graphic indicated.

They comprise 225,274 males and 284,588 females.

The decision to rejoin Liberia, The Gambia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone for the international examination this year follows five years of taking the Ghana-only version due to the COVID-19 outbreak disruption.

The Ghanaian candidates comprise 248,461 males and 225,197 females from 1,020 public and private second cycle schools, representing a 2.58 per cent increase over last year’s figure of 461,736.