The Ghana National Association of Private Schools (GNAPS) has called on the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to conduct an urgent nationwide audit of the 2026 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results, citing alleged processing and attribution errors that could affect students’ placement into senior high schools.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, August 5, GNAPS said it had received numerous complaints from private schools across the country regarding inconsistencies in the provisional results released by WAEC.
The Association said the reported anomalies include candidates being awarded grades in subjects they did not register for, results that do not reflect their known academic performance, and unexplained failures.
One case highlighted by GNAPS involved a candidate who sat for Twi as a Ghanaian Language but was reportedly awarded a grade in Ewe, a subject the student neither registered for nor wrote.
According to the Association, similar complaints have emerged from schools in several regions, raising concerns about possible administrative and technical errors in the processing of examination results.
GNAPS stressed that it supports WAEC’s efforts to punish genuine cases of examination malpractice but said the issues being raised involve possible collation and attribution errors, rather than cheating.
“These are errors of collation and attribution, administrative and technical failures in the processing of results that, if they are not corrected, will deny hardworking and deserving children the results they earned,” the Association stated.
The Association urged WAEC to immediately reconcile and review the affected results to ensure that every candidate receives grades that accurately reflect the papers they wrote and their actual performance.
GNAPS also appealed to WAEC to ensure fairness in the grading process, insisting that candidates should be assessed solely on merit, regardless of whether they attended a public or private school.
It expressed concern over what it described as an unusually high number of failures among private school candidates, arguing that many of the results differ sharply from students’ continuous assessment scores, terminal examination performance and mock examination results.
According to GNAPS, the timing of the discrepancies is particularly worrying because candidates are currently using the released grades to make school selection decisions, and any errors could adversely affect their educational opportunities.
The Association said it is compiling complaints from member schools across the country and warned that if WAEC fails to address the concerns and correct any affected results, it will meet to determine its next course of action.
The 2026 BECE results are expected to form the basis for placement into senior high schools and technical and vocational institutions across Ghana.
