Ho, Sept. 7, GNA - Mr Justice Ansa-Asare, Volta Regional Controller of Examinations, has advised students, who have just begun the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as private candidates to leave their mobile phones at home.
He said this would save them the trouble of finding safe places to keep them while in the examination hall because phones shut or on were barred in examinations halls for all examinations conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC).
Mr Ansa-Asare was addressing host of candidates at an orientation meeting in Ho on Thursday.
He also told candidates that only ordinary arithmetic calculators and not those with the capacities similar to computers were allowed in the examination halls.
A total of 4,915 candidates are taking the examinations in three centres in the Volta Region, Ho, Akatsi and Hohoe. Mr Ansa-Asare took candidates through examination regulations, procedures and the levels of punishments, including, cancellation of results, paying fines and imprisonment when caught cheating. He warned them against impersonation, saying that even if you slipped through, you would be caught when you come for your certificates.
Mr Ansa-Asare advised them to make sure they filled in columns of personal identification, regretting that some students failed exams in the past not because they did not perform well but because they failed to identify themselves properly.
He asked candidates to report people, who approached them with supposed examinations questions to WEAC offices or the police, assuring them that question papers would not leak.
Mr Ansa-Asare said those who had not got their admissions notices could down load them on the Internet, but advised that notices should be brought to WAEC offices for authentication.
