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Head of Psychology at the University of Ghana, Professor Joseph Osafo has advised against the leakage of examination questions to final year students.

Professor Joseph Osafo asked the examination authorities and parents to discourage school children from engaging in examination malpractices which often comes through their reliance on leaked examination papers or carry illegal items to aid them in writing their papers.

The Senior Lecturer made this comment while discussing the Junior High School (JHS) final year students writing their Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) today, September 14, 2020.

Professor Joseph Osafo bemoaned the culture where leaked exam papers, known in local parlance as ''apor'', have become a part of the examination system.

He called on the West African Examination Council (WAEC) which conducts the final exams to put mechanisms in place to avoid the examination papers from leaking.

He also urged parents to psych their children to be studious and adequately prepare themselves to pass their examinations without carrying foreign materials to their exam halls or depending on leaked papers to determine their performance in the ongoing BECE.

"Let the child enter into the examination hall with the brain . . . They're going to fall on the greatest asset - their brain - for a recall so they have to be careful they don't carry anything," he counseled on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo'.