Reverend Nii Nmai Ollennu, Head of Security and Printing Department at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Tuesday said students should not be deceived into thinking that they could pass their exams if they failed to learn.
"Once students do not make the effort to learn, it would be very difficult for them passing their examinations," he said this when addressing candidates on exam malpractice at the WAEC Hall in Accra.
Rev. Ollenu said students instead of learning would go about looking for easy and dubious ways to cheat in examination halls creating problems for other colleagues and the Council.
He cited possession of foreign materials, irregular activities inside and outside the examination halls; collusion; impersonation; leakage and mass cheating as some of the examination malpractices and told the students that the Council would not spare any one found indulging in malpractice.
Rev. Ollennu said WAEC had taken steps to ensure that there would be no examination leakages again.
He said appropriate sanctions would be imposed on students found culpable of breaking the rules and those found in the act would be handed over to the Police for prosecution.
The examination for private candidates would begin on October 5 to November 29 2006 and would involve more than 100,000 candidates.