Accra, June 18, GNA - Sixty thousand registered students from public schools will be sitting for this year's Senior Secondary School (SSS) Certificate Examination in November.

Speaking to the GNA in an interview in Accra on Friday, the Reverend Ebenezer Adotey, Head of SSSCE Department of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), said the council has not yet had the exact number of candidates from the private schools who will be taking the examinations.

Rev Adotey said: "it is because this will be the first time. The second reason is that the private candidates are not well organised and the procedure of collecting their registration forms is slow".

He said some of them send the forms through the post, which takes time to reach the council.

Rev Adotey expressed the hope that their forms would get to WAEC early for them to complete the necessary procedures before the examination takes place.

He said private candidates who are re-sitting will write the examination in their former schools provided they have good facilities.

But if the numbers are bigger, they will take their papers at the Ghana International Trade Fair Centre grounds.