Education Minister, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum, has pledged to resolve the stop in the pass rate in mathematics following the statistics provided by the West African Examination Council in the 2021 WASSCE.
The Minister address the media said it was unacceptable that the pass rate in mathematics in this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) dropped under his tenure.
Per the statistics provided by WAEC, 54.11 per cent passed in mathematics in 2021 as against 65.71 per cent.
The statistics indicate that over 45 per cent of the candidates who sat for the 2021 WASSCE failed Mathematics and English Language.
The Minister who was unhappy about the statistics said “Actually, the average is 60 per cent, certain subjects [rate] went up, others dipped but if you put it on average it is still 60 per cent.
“So, if you look at English for example, there was a dip, mathematics there was dip but Integrated Science saw huge jump and Social Studies saw an increase and so overall, the average is still 60 per cent.
“ But on the other hand” he added “I just want to assure you that Mathematics should not see a dip in my time as somebody who has taught mathematics. So we are going to look at what went wrong and what we can do, which school did so well and then we are going to look at how best to ensure that we move up.
“The good news is that two years in a row, we had in the core subjects seen 50 per cent plus pass rate which means more students will then qualify to go to the university because in the past years, what happened was, you may have 70 per cent or 80 per cent pass in social studies, and mathematics is 33 per cent. Because mathematics is 33 per cent, you can’t have more than 33 per cent of the students going to university. So, if English is 30 per cent, even if all the subjects are 70 per cent, you can’t have more than 30 per cent going to the university.
“The moment you move English and Mathematics up then you are guaranteed a higher rate of entry into the universities. So this is good news for the country.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
