By Ornette Turay
The Minster of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, Mr. Conrad Sackey has thrown light on the controversies surrounding the 2025 West Africa Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
He was speaking at the weekly press conference held on Tuesday 10th June, 2025 at the Conference Room of the Ministry of Information and Civic Education, Youyi Building, Brookfields, Freetown.
Minister Sackey expressed grave concern over some schools which failed to submit their CAS documents. He said as expected of school heads they have to upload their CAS 1 and personal bio data, adding that currently they have received 892 CAS 1 and 880 CAS 2 documents respectively from various schools, noting further that 12 SSS schools did not submit their CAS 2 to his Ministry.
He added that 47 SSS schools uploaded their BRS and submitted them to the MBSSE. He maintained that schools which failed to submit the required CAS, the pupils have lost 10% marks.
Minister Sackey expressed concern over pupils who take their mobile phones into the examination halls. He also spoke on the high incident of absenteeism of WASSC students in the 2025 WASSCE. He also noted with grave concern of over aging of some candidates and impersonation.
Sackey made it categorically clear that some heads of schools have deliberately disadvantaged pupils because of their dishonesty.
