After the West Africa Examination Council assessment of the 2023 WASSCE result, the best three(3) outstanding students who scored excellently in all written subjects were award at the 72nd Annual Council Meeting in Freetown, Sierra Leone on Tuesday, 19th March 2024.
Starting from the best overall Amo-Kodieh Leonard Kofi Marton from the St James Seminary Senior High School in Sunyani, the capital of the Bono region of Ghana, came first.
Dzandu Selorm from Labone Senior High School popularly known as L-A Bone located in Labone in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana placed second and Daniel Asenso-Gyambibi also from St James Seminary placed third. The three topped the 2,327,342 candidates who sat for the WASSCE (SC) 2023 in the five member countries of WAEC.
All the three top students came from and schooled in Ghana ranking Ghana the best country of the other four in the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Concerning the first prize, the overall best student took home $1500 equivalent to GH₵20,250.60, the second-place winner received a second-prize award of $1200 equivalent to GH₵162,004.80 and the third-prize winner received $900 equivalent to GH₵12,150.36 from the West Africa Examination Council Endowment Fund.
Currently, the first and the second best students Mr Amo-Kodieh and Mr Dzandu are reading Medicine at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology while Mr Asenso-Gyambibi is a student at the Ashesi University.
The International Excellence Awards for WASCCE for School Candidates are presented to the three (3) overall best candidates from the member countries that subscribe to the WASSCE, namely the Gambia, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.
Representing Ghana at the awards ceremony were council members of the WAEC, led by the Chief Government nominee, who is also the Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Dr Eric Nkansah; Ghana’s Non-Council Member on the Board of Trustees of the WAEC Endowment Fund, Nana Appiagyei Dankawoso I; the Chief Director of the Ministry of Education, Mrs Mamle Andrews; the Head of National Office (HNO), Wendy Enyonam Addy-Lamptey, and all the other members.
The International Excellence Awards was instituted since 1985 to reward and celebrate candidates with outstanding performance in the Council’s Senior High School Certificate examinations (WASSCE).