The Federal Government has instructed Secondary Schools to reopen on August 4, 2020 for students in exit classes to sit for the exam. Students will have two weeks to prepare for WAEC which will commence on August 17.

These were parts of decisions taken at the end of a virtual consultative meeting between the Federal Ministry of Education, Commissioners of Education of the 36 states, the Nigerian Union of Teachers, (NUT), the proprietors of private schools and Chief Executives of examination bodies.