After the Cameroonisation of the London GCE in 1977, things went on smoothly until 1984. From 1984 onwards, the GCE began experiencing irregularities as some London officials began withdrawing. In 1990 when the University of London Examination and Assessment Council withdrew completely from the role it had played so far on the Cameroon GCE and the irregularities became even more alarming. Some of these irregularities included,

• The use of GCE questions reserved for future sessions for Entrance Examinations into ENS in 1990,
• Change of the format of the GCE question papers in 1991 without prior notice to candidates,
• poor printing,
• Wrong pagination,
• Wrong spellings,
• Shortage of question papers and materials,
• Late arrival of question papers and the postponement of some papers,
• Wrong instructions on question papers and examination leakages.

In response to this popular demand, the Prime Minister of the Republic signed an order             (Order Nº: 194/CAB/PM of 11^th September, 1992) creating a Technical Committee to carry out studies and make recommendations on the organization and functioning of the GCE Examination Board.

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