Dennis Miracles Aboagye, Aide to former Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said anyone who blames the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) policy for the 2025 WASSCE failures is unintelligent.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Wednesday, December 3, Dennis Miracles Aboagye called on stakeholders to focus on identifying the actual factors behind the poor performance.
According to him, the Free SHS policy cannot be blamed for the substantial decline in this year’s results.
Miracles Aboagye stated, “Anybody who says that Free SHS is the reason for these failures is not being intelligent. It is an ill-informed comment and does not hold water. We need to stop politicising this issue.
“Let us identify, technically, what caused the poor performance in these two subjects and find a solution. Let us identify, technically, what contributed to the poor performance and work towards fixing it,” he said.
Also, Hamza Suhuyini, a Member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) communication team, has said the decision by the University of Ghana (UG) not to increase its cut-off point is extremely unacceptable.
According to Hamza Suhuyini, the Universities need to show flexibility in light of the unusually poor performance recorded in this year’s 2025 WASSCE examinations.
He argued that the rigid cut-off points could prevent deserving students from accessing tertiary education, calling on the University of Ghana to consider adjusting thresholds in it courses.
Speaking on Channel One TV on December 3, Hamza Suhuyini stated, “The UG’s decision not to increase their cut-off point is extremely unacceptable. I think the universities need to be flexible. It is possible that this failure could be due to factors beyond the students themselves”.
“We need to understand that the UG’s decision not to raise the cut-off point will be problematic. For example, instead of maintaining an aggregate 8 in certain courses, UG should consider these figures and possibly move it from aggregate 8 to 10,” he explained.
Meanwhile, the Executive Director of Africa Education Watch, Kofi Asare, has said the 2025 WASSCE students did not adequately prepare for their exams.
Kofi Asare linked the massive decline in the 2025 WASSCE results to inadequate preparation and a mismatch between teaching methods.
According to Kofi Asare, the students met questions they weren’t prepared for.
Speaking on Metro TV, the Education Watch Executive Director stated, “It is great to have conversations around the performance of children in examinations. When results go wrong, we discuss them, and where there are gaps, we bring them out.”
“Many of our teachers believe the main contributing reason could have been poor preparation. One headmaster explained to me that the nature of the questions this year was applied, and many students are used to recall-type questions,” he stated.
“When you prepare for ABC, and you meet DF, it means you did not prepare adequately,” he noted.