The West African Examination Council has released the result of the November/December 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
The Head of National Office WAEC, Mr. Isaac Adenipekun announced the release of the results in Lagos.4
Adenipekun spoke while announcing the release of the results of the November/December 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates at the council’s headquarters in Yaba, Lagos, Thursday.
He spoke in response to questions about the council’s readiness to face a planned probe by the Federal Government announced earlier this week.
The WAEC Boss, who stepped into the office of HNO just last week, said the council’s accounts audits are up to date.
He said: “WAEC is an international organisation that relies mostly on best practices in management. WAEC Nigeria and WAEC in other member-countries owe it a duty that their financial records must be updated every year such that as I am speaking with you, the audited account of Council is up to date – that is as at December 2014. And that audited account has gone through the required processes. And the Council at the highest level has also approved that. And that audited account for 2014 and all other previous years are available for scrutiny.
“And of course, our internal processes and procedures as far as financial management is concerned are also unbeatable. The internal audit department of WAEC is arranged and organised in such a way that they are serving (as) a good watchdog to ensure that financial mismanagement is never allowed. And when and where it is detected, it is promptly reported, and prompt action is also taken to correct it. In that light therefore, the Council in Nigeria is ever ready to open its books for scrutiny – not only for financial mismanagement but it might also be for commendation – for Government to commend WAEC for having done a good job in managing its finances.”
Presenting the statistics of performance for the November/December 2015 WASSCE, Adenipekun said of the 237,154 candidates that sat for the examination, 113,573 candidates made credits in five subjects and above.
He however declined to publicise the percentage of candidates that made credits in five subjects, including English and Mathematics – which is the benchmark used for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
The HNO explained that the yardstick, popularly used to gauge performance in the examination, was not accurate for measuring pass/failure rate because the November/December WASSCE diet is a makeup examination – unlike the May/June WASSCE, which is a school-based examination mostly written by SS3 pupils for the first time.
He said: “The November/December diet is more or less a makeup examination for many of the candidates. So if it is seen as mainly a makeup examination, then to now use the yardstick of five credits including English and Mathematics may be misleading in comparing. Because, for instance, a candidate that might have made seven credits in the May/June exam, may only need a credit in Mathematics or a credit in English Language only for him or her to have had a complete result that would allow him to continue in his/her educational pursuit.”
Adenipekun however noted that the Council could make the statistics available to researchers for research purpose on request.
Of the 237,154 candidates that registered for the examination, 99.82 per cent had their results released.
However, 1,612 candidates have their results withheld because of errors Adenipekun said are being corrected by the council.
Also, some 28,768 candidates are being investigated for their involvement in examination malpractices. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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