West African Examination Council says the performance of candidates in its 2017 May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination is an improvement over the ones recorded in the recent past.
The council’s Head of National Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, said this in Lagos on Monday, at a news conference to announce results of the May/June diet of the examination.
He said that 923,486 of the 1,559,162 candidates that sat for the examination, representing 59.22 per cent, obtained a minimum of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.
Adenipekun said the percentage of candidates in this category in WASSCE for school candidates was an improvement on what was obtained in the same examination in both 2015 and 2016 diets, with 38.68 per cent and 52.97 per cent respectively.
Adenipekun, however, said some 214,952 results of candidates that sat for the examination were being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractices.
“The cases are being investigated and reports of the investigations will be presented to the appropriate committee of the council in due course for consideration.
“The committee’s decisions will be communicated to the affected candidates through their schools,’’ he said.
Giving a further breakdown of the results, the WAEC boss said that 1,084,214 candidates, representing 69.94 per cent, obtained credits and above in six subjects.
He said that 1,243,772 candidates, representing 87.05 per cent, obtained credits and above in four subjects.
Adenipekun added that 1,436,024 candidates, representing 92.44 per cent, obtained credits and above in three subjects, while 1,490,356, representing 95.59 per cent, obtained credits and above in two subjects.
He added that of the 1,559,162 candidates that sat for the examination, 1,471,151, representing 94.36 per cent, had their results fully processed and released.
The official said that 95,734 others, representing 5.64 per cent, had a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to the candidates in the course of registration or writing the examination.
“Such errors are being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently,’’ Adenipekun said.
1,567,016 registered for this year’s examination.
Head of national office commended supervisors, examiners, and other persons for their immense contributions in ensuring a smooth conduct of the examination.
“The coordination and marking of candidates’ scripts for the 2017 WASSCE for schools was successfully held between May 24 and June 11 at 83 marking venues spread across the country.
“Having said this, we will like to state also that the Nigeria National Office of the council has concluded arrangements to commence the conduct of the addition of diet of the WASSCE for private candidates from January/ February 2018.
“This is part of our commitment to ensuring quality service delivery to the Nigerian public.
“I also want to seize this opportunity to inform you that with the upgrade of the council’s ICT facilities, particularly the recently inaugurated HP Converged System – a private cloud, the compability of the council’s ICT has now been enhanced,’’ he said.
The WAEC official called on candidates who sat for the examination to check the details of their performance on the council’s result website within the next few hours.
Punch
