Any examiner who detects malpractice in any examination conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, is paid N400 for each case reported.
This is just as the renumeration for marking papers ranges from N17 to N22.93 per script.
A document detailing the packages for examiners who marked papers in the recent Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination seen by New Daily Prime, indicated that the lowest fee for marking a paper was N17 per script and that was the subject – Animal Husbandry. The highest was for Physics and a few others at N22.93 per script.
Regarding compensation for reporting malpractice which was N400 per case for an examiner, tongues have been wagging as how that would gear up examiners to be on the look out to catch anybody engaging in exam malpractice.
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Recalling his experience, a teacher who stopped marking WAEC scripts wrote, “The last time I marked WAEC scripts was in 2019 — and I still haven’t healed from it. I was given a little over 300 scripts to mark.
Each script filled with long theory questions — with sub-questions a, b, and c.
It wasn’t a job. It was punishment.
“I spent two full weeks.Sleepless nights.Tired eyes. No weekends.No side work.No rest.
“Just me, a red pen, and a heavy heart. For every script I marked, I was paid ₦13.
When you calculate it, it gave me just around ₦4,000.
“The rest of what made my total pay up to ₦13,000 was for so-called “logistics”:
transportation, corrections, and back-and-forth stress that I paid for with my own strength and sanity. But in the end, what was left to take home? Nothing. Nothing but pa!n.
“I saw colleagues take multiple packs —
600… 900… even 1,200 scripts — not because they had the strength, but because they were desperate for more money as the pay per pack is small.
“And when the burden became too much,
they handed the scripts to anyone who could help them meet the deadline — students, friends, even non-teachers who didn’t understand the subject.
“Scripts were rushed. Wrong answers were ticked. Good students were failed. And no one will ever know what those children truly wrote.
“I looked at my pay, looked at my work, and I asked myself one painful question: Is this how a system kills both teachers and students silently? From that moment, I said never again.
Not until there is real change. Not until they value our effort. Not until teachers are treated like human beings — not cheap machines.”
New Daily Prime further gathered that examiners, that are expected to go to designated centres to mark their scripts are given some money for coordination, attendance attendance at centres and s pump sum.
For coronation fee, a Chief Examiner is given N13,338, Team Leader N11,934 and Assistant Examiner N9,360.
For attendance at coordination and marking, everyone is given N5,850 each, while the lump sum for various categories of examiners are Chief Examiner N11,700, Team Leader in Charge N9,360 and Team Leader also N9,360.
From all the above, it is only a Chief Examiner that can make above N50,000 in an exam period, because scripts are rationalize among markers so as not to overburden them.
However, with the high cost of transport, many marking centres experienced shortage of examiners as at the end of the day, most people do not feel adequately remunerated.
