The West African Examination Council (WAEC) yesterday said it could
not compute the percentage of candidates who made a credit pass in
English language, Mathematics and three other subjects because of the
security challenges in the North. Read more
Releasing the details of the results of the May/June West African
Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at the council’s
headquarters in Yaba, Lagos, WAEC’s Head of the Nigerian National Office
Mr Charles Eguridu said some of the scripts were hijacked and
eventually stolen by insurgents.
The WAEC chief explained that the insurgents waylaid the council’s officials during the examinations.
The development has made it difficult for the examinations body to compare this year’s results with
the previous years’ figures.
But Eguridu said there was an improvement in this year’s results over the previous years’ figures.
He said: “We are unable to provide statistics of candidates who
obtained five subjects, including English language and Mathematics at
this time. This is because many candidates in the Northeast have partial
results at the moment, due to the security challenges encountered there
during the conduct of the examination, particularly loss of scripts.”
Giving a breakdown of the results, the WAEC chief said 1,689,188
candidates registered for the examination of which 1,671,268, consisting
920,416 males and 750,852 females sat for the examination.
Eguridu said 1,543,683 (91.33 per cent) have their results fully
released, while 145,505 (8.2 per cent) still have a few of their
subjects still being processed because of errors traceable to candidates
and their schools in the registration or writing examination.
He said: “Of the total number of candidates that sat for the
examination, 889,636 (53.23 per cent) obtained six credits and above;
1,074,065 (62.26 per cent) obtained five credits and above. Besides,
1,225,591 candidates (73.33 per cent) obtained credits or above in four
subjects, while 1,353,273 (80.97 per cent) obtained credits and above in
three subjects.
“A total of 1,465,581 candidates (87.69 per cent) obtained credits and above in two subjects.”
Culled from The Nation newspaper
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