The 10 Deadly Rules of WAEC, A Caution to Both WASSCE and BECE Candidates

10 Deadly Rules WAEC Never Jokes With. A Caution to Both WASSCE and BECE Candidates

If you are reading this and you’re a candidate preparing to sit for West African Examination Council’s exams then luck has located you.

Whether you are a BECE or a WASSCE Candidate, you gotta take know these 10 Deadly Rules WAEC Never Jokes With.

In this article, we will take a close look at the rules WAEC never play with as far as the WASSCE and the BECE exams are concerned.

If you want to pass and pass well with less or no headache of remedial, then don’t spare this chance reading the entire article.

It doesn’t matter how brilliant or otherwise you are, if you go against these rules, the WAEC will never spare you. So, why you go through all the struggles when you’re can use this period to familiarize yourself with them?

There are some students who also think, passing the BECE or the WASSCE is about studying everything in their textbooks. But I tell you, if you fail to follow these rules while in the exams hall, then failure might be staring at your face.

I know all these along, you have been thinking if it’s exams malpractices I want to talk about. I want to say, it’s nowhere closed to that.

Why have I termed these rules as the 10 Deadly Rules of WAEC?

This is because they can let you fail your exams, when you play with them.

Rule 1: Insert your full index number, your name, signature, paper title and date of sitting for the Exams.

Your paper may not be marked if you fail to do these. This is because WAEC will find it difficult to trace the owner.

Your name should be the same as the one you used during the registration process. Take notice of the arrangements of your names, very important.

Don’t begin answering any question without doing these. Invigilators will not give you extra time to fill them up when the exams time is exhausted.

Rule 2: Write on both sides of the paper unless otherwise instructed on the question paper.

Under no circumstances should you leave or jump a page while answering your questions. We normally do this is our exercise books, but you can’t do that in BECE and WASSCE.

The only time you can jump a page is where the question has indicated to you to do so, perish that, never make such a mistake.

Rule 3: Begin each answer to a question on a fresh page. Leave two lines between answers where there are sub questions to the same question.

Meaning, where a question has ‘babies’; do leave clear two lines after answering a sub-question and you’re moving to another sub-question. Treat this with great importance, WAEC examiners are not your teachers. They mark scripts for money base on how many scripts they can mark. Not to say, they can just mark you down without a reason, don’t just fall a prey.

When you are done with one question and its babies, and there are huge space left on that very page don’t answer the next there. PLEASE Go to the next page.

Rule 4: Write the number of each question at the top of each page. Before you start answering your question, write only the question number at the top of the page. Don’t include the sub questions numbers or letters. Write the sub questions letters or numbers against them on the main page when answering.

Rule 5: Do not write in the margins of the answer booklet. Do these at your risk.

In our various schools, we write question number and letter in the margins. We develop this habits and sometimes repeat them in our BECE or WASSCE. Don’t make this mistake this time, know the right thing. Write your question number or letters on the main page, write them against your answers but it should be before. Leave a clear space between question number or letter and the answers you are providing.

Rule 6: Rough work should be done in your answer booklet and should be clearly crossed out. On no account should you tear up part of the booklet.

One thing, I advise students to do is to reserve their first page for all their rough work, especially with subjects that requires planning and simple calculations. But make sure you use it and not leave it blank otherwise you abuse the second deadly rule of WAEC.

I’ve personally done these before. You can add the question number of the questions you’re planning on against it in the rough work.

This tells, how organized you are as a student. Sometimes you might finish all your questions due to time factor, but the plan you have made in your rough work will save you. Never joke with it.
Don’t do your rough work on the question paper as that amounts to examination malpractices.

Rule 7: You are not allowed under any circumstances to remove answer booklet or supplementary answer sheets or unused, from the exam Examination hall.
In case, you couldn’t exhaust all your pages even though you were able to finish all your questions, don’t take those unused part out.

Some students will say, I’ve paid for and once I didn’t use it, let me take it out. WAEC says, NO.

Rule 8: Write in the space provided below, the number of the questions you have answered in the order in which you have written them.

Once you finished with your questions, be sure you write the question number in the rectangular box provided at the bottom of the front page of the answer booklet.

Now, for you not to forget as soon as you finished with a question gently turn to the front page and write the question number.

The question numbers you write should be in order as you have presented them in the booklet. If you answer the 2 first, make sure it comes first as you write them follow by the questions you answered next.

Rule 9: Write your answer in simple and clear language and make sure your handwriting is legibly.

The most important rule that can get you fail your exams is this very one. WAEC and its examiners do not need your verbosity, use simple language and ensure your sentences are logically correct and can be understood easily.

I’m saying it again, the examiners are not your class teachers who is familiar with your handwriting. Write clearly in search a way that, it can be read by anybody.

10: Avoid unnecessary cancellations. Plan on what you’re to right in order to save yourself from cancelling your work anyhow. In a case where you want to cancel, use one clear horizontal line striking through the sentences or answers you wish to cancel.

My take: All these, you are dealing with time. In terms of examinations, the master of the time is the one who succeeds. Having the speed will let you finish all you questions. If you know the answers and you don’t have the speed you wouldn’t finish.

Writing with speed is not to say, just do any shoddy work. Don’t allow yourself to be marked down.

Present your answers in search a way that, it can entice the examiners to wanting to give you more marks even if he doesn’t have to.

My cousin, once said; “Speed is part of examination, and having the correct pace or speed gives you the tendency of passing your exams and it’s like you have already scored 50%.”

Take these deadly rules of WAEC very serious and save yourself from any failure.

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