WAEC & NECO Examiners Complain Over Payment Rates For Script Marking

Despite the rising cost of living in Nigeria, examiners marking scripts of candidates for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and the National Examination Council (NECO) have continued to receive a ridiculous fee for their services since 2003. \

Siggy reports that some of the examiners have decried the poor wages paid to them for the strenuous job of marking numerous scripts.

One of the examiners, Grace Edema said both examination councils have continued to pay a meagre sum of N14 per script for over a decade with any possible hope of increment.

Another examiner, Alaba Oluwakemi, who has been marking WASSCE since 2016, earns N13,000 for 250 scripts marked at N14 per script within two weeks.

Alaba whose speciality is marking Physics script for WASCCE said the job which is quite strenuous does not give him the opportunity to engage in any other meaningful task all through the period.

He said N14 per script is only applicable to major subjects like Physics, Maths, English and others, as some other subjects’ fees could be as low as N12, N13 per script. The man said he has been collecting the same fee for the job for the past five to six years now.

However, explaining why the council pay such a ridiculous fee for the task, the head of Nigeria national office, WASSCE, Patrick Areghan said the payment is low and could not be increased due to the cost of registration for the examination.

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