The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has officially released its practical specimens/ Instructions to schools in preparation for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates. The 2023 WAEC Practical specimen is out and can be accessed below.
2023 WAEC Animal Husbandry Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
2. The provision of specimens, materials, and equipment for the test is your responsibility.
(b) (i) Where a specimen is not readily available in sufficient quantity, it should be shared between small groups of candidates.
(i) Each candidate should be provided with the following specimens labelled accordingly:
Specimen A – Fresh centrosema plant
Specimen B – Guinea grass (fresh)
Specimen C – Palm oil (labelled)
Specimen D – Hoof
Specimen E – Horn
Specimen F – Feather
Specimen G – Common salt (labelled)
Specimen H – Maize grains
Specimen I – Powdered milk
Specimen J – Groundnut cake
Specimen K – Water (labelled)
Specimen L – Restraining rope.
REPORT FORM
3. Report Forms are provided separately on which you are requested to:
(a) supply details of the specimens and materials provided;
(b) report on any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate especially if the examiner would be unable to discover these from the scripts;
(c) make and record experimental observations.
You must enclose a completed Report Form in each envelope of scripts.
Recommended links:
WAEC Assistance/Questions and Answers
NECO Assistance/Questions and Answers
IJMB Assistance/Questions and Answers
NECO Practical Specimen for School Candidates
2023 WAEC Agricultural Science Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
2. (a) The provision of specimens, mater1als and equipment for the test is your responsibility.
(b) (i) Where a specimen is not readily available in sufficient quantity, it should be shared among small groups of candidates.
(ii) Each candidate should be provided with the following specimens labelled accordingly:
Specimen A – Feeding trough
Specimen B – Burdizzo (real/picture/diagram)
Specimen C – Neck/collar tag
Specimen D – Spanner
Specimen E – Kerosine lamp
Specimen F – Inorganic fertilizer (superphosphate) (labelled)
Specimen G – Compost (labelled)
Specimen H – Farmyard manure (labelled)
Specimen I – Groundnut seeds (unshelled)
Specimen J – Cotton lint
Specimen K – Oil palm fruit
Specimen L – Rubber latex (labelled)
Specimen M – Crop (Poultry)
Specimen N – Gizzard (longitudinal section with its contents)
Specimen O – Rumen
Specimen P – Small intestine
Specimen Q – Liver.
REPORT FORM
3. Report Forms are provided separately on which you are requested to:
(a) supply details of the specimens and materials provided;
(b) report on any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate especially if the examiner would be unable to discover these from the scripts;
(c) make and record experimental observations.
You must enclose a completed Report Form in each envelope of scripts.
Recommended Links:
2023 WAEC Midnight Questions and Answers
NECO Midnight Questions and Answers
2023 WAEC 2023 SSCE Examination Timetable
2023 WAEC Biology Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
2. Each candidate should be instructed to bring to the examination room;
(a) sharpened drawing pencils (preferably 2B) at least 15cm long;
(b) an eraser;
(c) a ruler.
3. (a) Each candidate should be provided with the following groups of specimens.
GROUP I
Specimen A – Weevil-damaged bean seed
Specimen B – Viable bean seed
Specimen C – Dried maize grain soaked in water overnight
Specimen D – Soldier termite (dead)
Specimen E – Honeybee (dead)
Specimen F – Muddy water (in a test tube)
Specimen G – Lower jaw of a herbivore with teeth intact
GROUP II
Specimen H – Head of domestic fowl (complete)
Specimen J – Quill feather
Specimen K – Leg of domestic fowl (complete) Specimen L – Head of duck complete)
Specimen M – Leg of duck (complete)
NOTE:
(i) All specimens can be provided as group specimens for five (5) to ten (10) candidates.
(ii) All specimens in each group must carry individual labels (e.g. A, B, C, D, E, F and G in Group I).
(b) It is essential that each candidate should be provided with the following materials:
(i) glass jar cover/Petri dish
(ii) white tiles
(iii) beaker
(iv) a hand lens/magnifying lens
(v) scalpel/razor blade/knife
(vi) a pair of forceps
(vii) iodine solution.
REPORT FORM
4. Report Forms are provided separately on which you are required to:
(a) supply the necessary information about the specimens;
(b) report on any difficulty in the conduct of the examination;
(c) report any particular difficulty experienced by any candidate during the conduct of the examination, especially if the examiner would be unable to discover these from the scripts;
(d) carry out and record experimental observations as directed in the Report Form.
5. You must enclose a completed Report Form in each envelope of scripts.
2023 WAEC Computer Studies Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
(a) The timetable allows for the examination to be taken in two sets. Where a school is presenting candidates for the second set, the supervisor must ensure that the work from the first set is permanently deleted from the hard drive including the recycle bin.
(b) Additional 5 minutes should be given to candidates at the end of the examination to print out their finished/unfinished solutions.
(c) Invigilators should pick up candidates’ hard copies from the printers and handover to the candidates to avoid overcrowding around the printer.
(d) Candidates are to submit their printouts to supervisors themselves.
(e) The candidate’s printout should be signed by the supervisor.
(f) Schools should ensure that no candidate brings in any storage media (e.g. flash drive, compact disk, etc) into the examination hall.
HARDWARE/SOFTWARE REQUIRED
2. The number of computers provided for the examination should be at least half the number of candidates who entered for the examination
For instance:
(a) a school presenting 20 candidates must have at least 10 computers;
(b) a school presenting 55 candidates must have at least 28 computers.
3. The computers should be connected to a local area network.
4. One high performance printer should be connected to at most 10 computers (1.e. ratio of printer to computers is 1:10).
5. The Operating System for the computers should be Windows 7 or higher version.
6. The following application packages should be installed on each computer:
(a) MS Word 2007 or higher;
(b) MS Excel 2007 or higher;
(c) MS Access 2007 or higher;
(d) MS PowerPoint 2007 or higher;
(e) CorelDraw.
7. Schools are encouraged to provide additional PCs on standby in case of equipment failure.
8. If a candidate damages any of the equipment, the matter should be rectified and a note made on the Report Form.
ASSISTANCE TO CANDIDATES
9. The purpose of the practical Computer Studies test is to find out whether candidates can carry out simple practical work themselves.
The Examiner is aware that a candidate sometimes may not be able to show his/her practical ability owing to his/her failure to understand some points in the theory of an experiment. If the Examiner is present in the laboratory/ workshop, he should be prepare to give such a candidate a hint to enable him/her get on with the experiment. In order to overcome this dificulty, you are asked to cooperate with the Examiner to the extent of being ready to give (or to allow the Computer Studies teacher to give) a hint to candidate who is unable to proceed.
10. The following regulations must be strictly adhered to.
(a) No hint may be announced to the candidates as a whole.
(b) A candidate who is unable to proceed and requires assistance must come up to you and state his/her difficulty. The candidate should be told that the Examiner will be informed of any assistance given in this way.
(c) A note must be made, in the Report Form, of any assistance given to any candidate, with the name and index number of the candidate.
11. It is suggested that the following announcement be made to the candidates:
“The Examiner does not want you to waste your time through inability to proceed with the practical’s. Therefore, any candidate, who is unable to proceed with a practical test after he/she has spent 15 minutes on it, may come to me and ask for help. I shall report to the Examiner any help given in this way, and some marks may be lost for the help received.
You may ask me for any additional equipment which you think Would improve the accuracy of your work, and you should state on your script how you used such equipment.”
SUPERVISOR’S REPORT
12. Supervisor’s Report Forms are provided separately, on which you are required to:
(a) supply detailed information about the equipment where necessary;
(b) report on any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate, especially if the Examiner would be unable to discover these from the written answers;
(c) report on any help given to any candidate under the regulations explained in 10;
(d) report on any damage of equipment (see 8).
13. The candidates should be instructed not to write out any detailed description of the equipment, instead you or the teacher responsible are/is required to give, on the Report Form, a brief description of the equipment supplied, mentioning any points which are likely to be of importance to the Examiner in marking the answers.
14. The Report Form should be signed by the Supervisor and by the person responsible for preparing the equipment.
2023 WAEC Chemistry Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given in items 2 and 3 below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
2. In addition to the fittings and reagents normally found in a chemistry laboratory, the following apparatus and materials will be required by each candidate.
(a) One Burette of 50cm3 of capacity
(b) One pipette, either 20cm3 or 25cm3 (All candidates at one center must use pipettes of the same volume, these should be clean and free from grease).
(c) The usual apparatus for titration
(d) The usual apparatus and reagents for qualitative work including the following with all reagents appropriately labeled:
(i) 10% dilute sodium hydroxide solution
(ii) dilute hydrochloric acid
(iii) dilute trioxonitrate(v) acid
(iv) silver trioxonitrate(v) acid
(v) acidified potassium dichromate solution
(vi) aqueous ammonia
(vii) lime water
(viii) red and blue litmus paper
(ix) dilute tetraoxosulphate(vi)
(x) aqueous barium chloride
(e) Spatula
(f) Filtration apparatus,
(g) One beaker
(h) One boiling tube
(i) Four test tubes
(j) Starch solution indicator
(k) Glass rod
(l) Wash bottle containing distilled/deionized water,
(m) Burning splint,
(n) Watch glass
(o) Bunsen Burner/source of heat
(p) Droppers
3. (a) 150cm3 of iodine solution in a corked flask or bottle labeled ‘An’. These should all be the same containing 25.4g of I2 in 6.0g kl per dm3 of solution.
(b) 150cm3 of sodium thiosulphate pentahydrate solution in a corked flask or bottle labeled ‘Bn’. These should all be the same containing 24.82g of Na2S2O3 per dm3 of solution.
(c) One spatulaful of ammonium ferrous sulphate, (NH4)2Fe(SO4)2.6H2O in a specimen bottle labeled ‘Cn’.
This must be the same for all candidates.
4. In all cases, more materials may be issued if required.
5. The actual concentrations of A and B must be stated on the Supervisor’s Report Form. The candidates will assume that the concentrations are exactly as stated in the question paper.
6. It should be noted that schools are not allowed to amend the information provided on the question paper or substitute any substance/solution for those specified in these Specimen/ Instructions.
ARRANGEMENT AND SERIAL NUMBERS OF CANDIDATES
7. The laboratory places should be numbered serially, and the candidates should be allotted these places strictly in the order of their index numbers. The number of every specimen supplied to each candidate should be the same as his or her serial number.
8. If a candidate is absent, his or her serial number should not be allotted to another candidate.
9. If the candidates are divided into a number of sets, the serial numbers should be continued through the sets, so that no serial number is repeated.
10. At the beginning of the examination, it should be ensured that the candidates record their serial numbers as well as their index numbers on the front page of their answer booklets, as they will be.
SUPERVISOR’s REPORT
11. Supervisor’s Report Forms are provided separately. You must enclose a completed Report Form in each envelope of scripts.
12. The chemistry teacher should carry out the titrations required of the candidates in question 1. The titration figures should be up to at least one decimal place and should be carefully verified. Unless this is done at the same time as the candidates own titrations, wide variations could set in and the candidates may be unavoidably penalized.
13. Any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate should be reported especially if the Examiner would be unable to discover these from the scripts.
CAUTION STATEMENT ON THE TOXICITY OF CHEMICALS
14. It is important to remind candidates that chemicals could be dangerous when they are not handled properly.
Before the practical examination starts, read out the following statements to candidates:
“Even though care has been taken to select the chemicals you will work with, you are being reminded that chemicals could be dangerous. It is therefore important that you handle them carefully.
Call the attention of your invigilator as soon as you start having any unusual sensation. Wash your mouth thoroughly with plenty of water, should any chemical get into it. Remember to wash your hand thoroughly as soon as you finish handling the chemicals.”
15. It is, however expected that you will put the appropriate arrangement in place to prevent the occurrence of any accident.
2023 WAEC Fisheries Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
After consultation, this document should be kept under lock and key until the day of the examination.
2. (a) The provision of specimens, materials and equipment for the test is your responsibility.
(b) (i) Where a specimen is not readily available in sufficient quantity, it should be shared between small groups of candidates.
(ii) Each candidate should be provided with the following specimens labelled accordingly:
Specimen A – Cardboard box (without any inscription)
Specimen B – Maize (grains)
Specimen C – Soya beans
Specimen D – Digger
Specimen E – Shovel
Specimen F – Hand gloves
Specimen G – Charcoal
Specimen H – Water pumps
Specimen I – Water test kit (that measures at least five common parameters)
Specimen J – Secchi disk
REPORT FORM
3. Supervisor’s Report Forms are provided separately on which you are required to:
(a) supply details of the specimens and materials provided;
(b) report on any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate especially if the examiner would be unable to discover these difficulties from the scripts;
(c) make and record experimental observations.
4. You must enclose a completed Report Form in each envelope of scripts.
2023 WAEC Physics Practical Specimen/ Instructions to Schools
1. Great care should be taken to ensure that the information given below does not reach the candidates either directly or indirectly before the examination.
2. In addition to the usual apparatus in the Physics laboratory, each candidate will require the following:
General
Mathematical table/calculator;
Geometrical instruments.
QUESTION 1
Metre rule
Knife edge
A piece of string
A weighing balance
A weight hanger
A set of masses, M = (20g, 40g, 60g, 80g and 100g)
QUESTION 2
Deep transparent vessel filled with water
Vernier calipers
Standand Masses, m = (2g, 5g and 10g)
A piece of string
Forceps (To be used to pick masses placed inside the boiling tube)
Source of heating
Additional Information:
(a) Test tube or boiling tube of the following dimensions:
Length: at least 14cm
External diameter: 2.5cm
The teacher should:
(b) Use starch to fix a strip of graph sheet marked in centimeters inside the boiling tube or test tube. The 0 centimeter mark of the scale should be at the bottom of the tube.
(c) Place sufficient amount of dry sand or lead shot in the test tube or boiling tube to make it just float, when that is done, pour it into a small polythene and seal it. Push the sealed sand or lead shot to the bottom of the tube.
QUESTION 3
Jockey
2 dry cells(1.5v each) connected in series;
Connecting leads should be provided for the battery
Ammeter(0 – 2A)
Potentiometer
Key/switch
Standard resistor, R of resistance 2ohms
Connecting wires.
CONDUCTING THE PRACTICAL PHYSICS TEST
3. The following announcement should be made to the candidates at the beginning of the examination:
‘The Examiner does not want you to waste your time because you cannot proceed with an experiment. Any candidate, therefore, who cannot get on with the experiment after spending 15 minutes on it, may come to me and ask for help.’
4. The Physics Teacher should be allowed to give a hint to a candidate who is unable to proceed with the experiment
5. Following regulations must be strictly adhered to.
(a) No hint should be announced to the candidates as a whole.
(b) A candidate who is unable to proceed and requires assistance must come up to you and state his or her difficulty. The candidate should be told that the Examiner will be informed of any
assistance given in this way.
(c) A note must be made, on the Report Form, of any assistance given to any candidate, with the name and index number of the candidate.
REPORT FORMS
6. Report Forms are provide separately, on which you are required to state
the following:
(a) detailed information about the apparatus where necessary;
(b) any particular difficulties experienced by any candidate, especially if the Examiner would be unable to discover these from the
scripts:
(c) any departure from the specified items which could not be
avoided;
(d) any assistance given to the candidates under the regulations explained in 5 above.
7. In cases where several sets of apparatus are provided for question and specific information about the apparatus is required by the Examiner, each piece of apparatus about which the information is required, and which may differ slightly for different candidates, must be clearly marked with letters A, B, C, etc. and the corresponding information must be clearly reported, showing which apparatus was supplied to which candidate. The candidates should be instructed to record these letters in their scripts.
8. A completed Report Form must be enclosed in each envelope of scripts.
RECOMMENDED LINKS
1. WAEC GCE Examination Assistance
2. WAEC GCE Registration Guidelines
3. WAEC GCE Timetable Second Series
4. NECO GCE Examination Assistance
5. NECO GCE Registration Guidelines
6. NECO GCE External Timetable
7. NABTEB GCE Examination Assistance
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