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This is a two part research work which focuses on illegal mining (Galamsey) both at the mining sites and in schools in Ghana especially second cycle institutions. Gold mining in Ghana is a big business giving the county Billions of Pounds Sterling’s yearly. The sustenance of the country is based on this surface and underground resource which has boosted the economy over the years. Big mining companies have been established through standardization and undergoing mining to boost the Ghanaian economy. These mining companies like AngloGold, Perseus mines, Golden Star, Newmont etc. are using standard operating procedures (SOP’s). This has been going on well over the years until man became so greedy and jealous wanting to do what these well-established mining companies are doing to help the economy. This lead to the formation of small groups called Galamsey. This resulted in the destruction of River Birim. The human gold mining business in the country has also detoriated drastically as examination malpractices are practiced in the schools during final examinations. The studied WASSCE 2018 physics practical Alt A question one, which was sampled to access the quality of examination at the Senior High level also gave a nice result but cannot be confirmed in the marking Scheme. The value obtained for the acceleration due to gravity (g) is 10ms-2 to the nearest whole number but this cannot be justified by what students were looking for in the general marking scheme. When the expression given by WAEC to evaluate for acceleration due to gravity, g, which ranges from 9.8ms-2 to 10ms-2 the answer obtained is 101.09ms-2. This means that there should be a factor 10 to bring it to the acceptable value. This factor is the base of the logarithm used in the determining logT values to be plotted on the graph.