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WAEC

West African Examinations Council

WASSCE English Language

Compulsory for every WASSCE candidate. Three papers: objective, essay, and the Test of Orals.

A candidate shading an OMR answer sheet with a 2B pencil beside an objective question paper, the paper-based format WAEC papers are sat in.

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WASSCE English Language

Total time: 3h 45m
Sections: 3
Scoring: scaled

Sections

Paper 1 — Objective
Multiple-choice. This is the paper the CBT simulator practises.
Start practice Warm up firstCompulsory1h80 questions
Scope of study — 16 topics
The bar next to each topic is how much of our own question bank touches it — not the exam board's official weighting, which we do not have.
- Antonyms2 questions
- Comprehension2 questions

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Concord

5 questions

Grammatical Structure1 question

Idiomatic Expressions1 question

Idioms3 questions

Phrasal verbs2 questions

Punctuation1 question

Question tags2 questions

Registers3 questions

Sentence interpretation2 questions

Stress and sound3 questions

Synonyms2 questions

Tenses3 questions

Vocabulary4 questions

Word classes2 questions

Paper 2 — Essay

Written answers, marked against a rubric.

Start practice Warm up firstCompulsory2h

Written answer, graded against a rubric

Paper 3 — Test of Orals

Sat separately from the written papers.

Start practice Warm up firstCompulsory45 min60 questions

Spoken answer, graded against a rubric