WASSCE past papers and worked solutions

Senior secondary certificate examination set by the West African Examinations Council in Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Liberia, for school and private candidates.

Official past papers page ↗Official website: West African Examinations Council (WAEC) ↗

Subjects and years

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Subject	Papers by year
Biology	2023 · 2 2023 · 3 2022 · 2 2022 · 3 2019 · 2 2019 · 3 2018 · 2 2018 · 3 2017 · 2 2017 · 3 2016 · 2 2016 · 3
Chemistry	2023 · 2 2023 · 3 2022 · 2 2022 · 3 2020 · 2 2020 · 3 2019 · 2 2019 · 3 2018 · 2 2018 · 3 2017 · 2 2017 · 3 2016 · 2 2016 · 3
Economics	2023 · 2 2020 · 2 2019 · 2 2018 · 2 2017 · 2 2016 · 2
English Language	2023 · 2 2022 · 2 2021 · 2 2020 · 2 2019 · 2 2018 · 2 2017 · 2 2016 · 2
General Mathematics	2023 · 2 2022 · 2 2021 · 2 2020 · 2 2019 · 2 2018 · 2 2017 · 2 2016 · 2
Physics	2023 · 2 2023 · 3 2021 · 2 2021 · 3 2020 · 2 2020 · 3 2019 · 2 2019 · 3 2018 · 2 2018 · 3 2017 · 2 2017 · 3 2016 · 2 2016 · 3

With a worked solutionOfficial link only

No papers listed yet: Agricultural Science, Financial Accounting, Further Mathematics, Geography, Government, Literature in English

Where the papers come from

We never copy an exam board’s papers. Every paper opens on the official website; the solutions and practice questions are our own.

Free on WAEC's official e-Learning portal (linked from waecnigeria.org): past questions with Chief Examiners' comments and expected answers, as web pages, roughly 2008-2023. WAEC Ghana also posts Chief Examiners' reports as PDFs.

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