The West African Examinations Council, on Monday, announced
that it withheld the results of 215,149 candidates who sat for the 2020 West
African Senior School Certificate Examination in Nigeria.
The Council said the results of the candidates representing
13.98% of the total number of candidates who wrote the examination are being
withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.
The Head of WAEC Nigeria, Patrick Areghan, made this know at
a briefing in Lagos while announcing the official release of the results of
this year’s WASSCE.
He said, “The cases are being investigated and reports of
the investigations will be presented to the appropriate Committee of the
Council for determination in due course. The Committee’s decisions will be communicated
to the affected candidates through their various schools.”
“81,718 candidates, representing 5.31% have a few of their
subjects still being processed due to some errors on the part of the
candidates. Efforts are, however, being made to speedily complete the
processing to enable all the affected candidates get their results fully
processed and released, subsequently,” Areghan added.
He further explained that “the analysis of the statistics of
the performance of candidates in the examination shows that out of the
1,538,445 candidates that sat the examination, 1,338,348 candidates,
representing 86.99%, obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five
subjects (i.e with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics;
“1,003,668 candidates, representing 65.24%, obtained credits
and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and
Mathematics.
“Of this number 497,139 i. e. 49.53% were male candidates,
while 506,529 i.e. 50.47% were female candidates.
“The percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE
for School Candidates, 2019, that is, those who obtained credit and above in a
minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, was
64.18%. Thus, there is a marginal 1.06% improvement in performance in this
regard.”
Areghan noted that the “certificates of candidates whose
results have been fully processed and released will be ready within the next 90
days, counting from today.”
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