2024 WASSCE English Language Essay Topics For Ghana

As students in Ghana prepare for the 2024 WASSCE for school candidates, watching the three topic areas for the 2024 WASSCE English Language essay shared in this post will go a long way to excel in the examination.

While the WASSCE English Language paper’s composition section contains five questions for candidates to answer, WAEC consistently favors the essay types we will soon reveal. These topics are of great interest to WEAC, whether the questions are for Ghana-only candidates or all five WAEC member states.

What are the three (3) Ghana 2024 WASSCE English Language Essay Topics to consider?

Official letters

Official letters have become important to all of us. For instance, WASSCE graduates will have to write some form of official letter, such as those seeking jobs or scholarships after their WASSCE. WAEC may not favor these reasons, but a formal letter question is likely to appear in the 2024 WASSCE (SC) with a 90% probability.

Formal letters are simple to write if you understand the requirements or features of such a letter and follow it religiously in the examination hall. Between now and the start of the exam, solve at least four different formal letter questions under examination conditions before the exam.

What are the characteristics of a formal letter to master before the exam?

Note that all formal letters, whether they are addressed to a government official, for employment, for pursuing a scholarship, or to the editor of a newspaper, contain all the following features:

1. Writer’s Address (Master the address writing and apply it in all write-ups that demand it.)
2. Date
3. Recipient’s Address (Master the address writing and apply it in all write-ups that demand it.)
4. Salutation
5. Heading (in capital letters, underlined and centred)
6. Introduction of the letter (Indicate why you are writing). No need for greetings and pleasantries since it is not an informal letter.
7. The main body of the letter (here) responds to the main reason for writing the letter. Often three points with each in one paragraph is enough unless the question demands a certain number of facts or points to be explained.
8. Concluding paragraph that should close the essay.
9. Subscription (e.g., Yours faithfully) This should be followed by your signature, then your full name, followed by your position, if any.

An example of a good subscription is below.

Yours faithfully,

JsMAk

James Akunor

(Opinion Leader of Tema)

Speech Writing

Our second projected essay type you cannot avoid during the WASSCE is speech writing. We have extensively dealt with this in one of our earlier write-ups. Check out the post How to Write a Perfect Speech for Any WAEC Exam (English Language).

Narrative Essays

English composition and, for that matter, a WASSCE An English paper cannot be written without a narrative or descriptive narrative question. These questions are also easy to answer, but the candidate must be able to create a relevant story and display his or her creativity and ability to use suspense, among others, when answering the questions.

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Some key features to keep in mind when answering narrative essay questions

1. Write a good title in capital letters and centre it. The title must relate to the exact question you are answering.
2. Ensure the introduction is a good hook. Where the question provides an introduction, use it and nothing else.
3. Use suspense and describe scenes, actions, and characters to create a vivid image in the mind of the examiner.
4. Ensure that the essay answers the question directly.
5. Avoid deviating and long stories that are longer than 400 words.

Solve the following 2024 WASSCE English Language Essay Questions. 

1. Write a letter to the president of Ghana explaining any three challenges confronting Free SHS students in Ghana at school.
2. As the leader of the Green Earth club in your school, write a letter to the Accra Zoo outlining the dangers of loose animals in our communities and what they can do to help.
3. You are the senior prefect of your school, and you were selected to read a speech on behalf of your school prefect at a career guidance conference for SHS students. Write a speech on the importance of knowing your career preference before graduating from senior high school.
4. Write a story that explains, “Karm is always true indeed.”
5. Narrate an interesting story to your friends in school that ends with “We promised never to do that again.”.

Now that you have read this all-important post on “3 Ghana 2024 WASSCE English Language Essay Topics To Watch,” do well to revise for the English language paper.