The Head of Public Affairs at the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), John Kapi, has revealed that some teachers are using artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT to aid examination malpractice during the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

Speaking on the just-ended BECE in an interview with Starr FM on May 12, 2026, John Kapi said technology has changed the methods used in cheating during examinations, making it more sophisticated than before.

According to him, some teachers now take snapshots of examination questions, feed them into AI platforms, and send the generated answers back to candidates in the examination hall.

"Previously, what you would find is that maybe a teacher will be in the classroom trying to talk to the candidates. This time with mobile telephones and technology, generally, people have devised much more sophisticated methods of engaging in this malpractice,
" he said.
"Basically, what happens is that they are using mobile phones, they take snapshots, they feed this into either Al or Chat GPT, and then they generate the answers and send them back to the candidates," he added.

John Kapi also disclosed that some examination centres recorded cases where almost every candidate had access to a mobile phone during the exams.
"There have been other centers also where virtually every candidate had a mobile phone. That's terrible because the rule says that for every examination to start, the candidate should be searched," he stated.

He suggested that such incidents point to possible collaboration between some officials and candidates at the centres. "So, once this happens, then you know very well that there's some kind of connivance with the authorities in the area," he indicated.