Adutwum commends 2023 WASSCE overall best students

Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum, the Minister for Education commended the three (3) overall best students of the 2023 West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in his office, on Tuesday 26th March 2024 when the Director-General of GES, Dr Eric Nkansah led the students to pay a courtesy call on the Minister.

“Research and read Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers which discusses the “Ten Thousand Hour Rule” and the Heroes Journey by Joseph Campbell, apart from the Bible, let these books guide you and you will climb to become the best in the world.”

Dr Adutwum said this when he hosted the three award winners in his office in Accra.

For their part, the three award winners appreciated the Minister for the warm reception and assured him of their continuous commitment to academic excellence.

On Tuesday, 19th March 2024, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the three were awarded at the 72nd Annual WAEC Council Meeting as the best three (3) out of the 2,327,342 students from the five (5) member countries who sat for the WASSCE 2023.

For the first prize, the overall best student took home $1500, the second-place winner received a second-prize award of $1200 and the third-prize winner received $900 from the WAEC Endowment Fund.

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.