Head of National Office, Dr. Amos Josiah Dangut (middle); Senior Deputy Registrar/Test Development, Mrs. Frances Iweaha-Onukwu (left); Director of Administration, Mr. Suleiman Kum, and Senior Deputy Registrar/Test Administration, Mrs Eucharia Onodu and Director, Information and Communications Technology, Mrs Olufolake Ajayi, during the announcement of the release of results of WASSCE for School Candidates, 2024, today.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld results of 215, 267 candidates, who sat for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) (School Candidates) over alleged malpractice.
Dr Amos Dangut, Head, National Office (HNO) stated this while announcing the results on Monday, in Lagos.
According to Dangut, the number represents 11.92 per cent of candidates who sat for the examination.
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld results of 215, 267 candidates, who sat for the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) (School Candidates) over alleged malpractice.
Dr Amos Dangut, Head, National Office (HNO) stated this while announcing the results on Monday, in Lagos.
According to Dangut, the number represents 11.92 per cent of candidates who sat for the examination.
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He noted that the figure was 4.37 per cent lower than the 16.29 per cent recorded in the same diet, in 2023.
“The withheld results of these candidates that sat for the examination are in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.
“The increasing use of cell phones in the examination hall, in spite of the existing ban and organised cheating in some schools, are other nagging issues.
“All the cases are being investigated and reports of the investigations will be presented to the appropriate committee of the council, for consideration and final decisions,” he said.
The WAEC boss added that the committee’s decisions would be communicated to the affected candidates through their various schools, in due course.
He urged candidates affected by the decisions to call for redress of their cases, if they so wished, via https://waecinternational.org.
According to him, the council will continue to sanction all cases of examination malpractice.
He said that schools, supervisors, teachers and candidates perpetrating the evil were not helping the educational system.
All hands must therefore be on deck to sanitise the system,” he said.
Giving a further breakdown of the results, Dangut said a total of 1,814,736 candidates registered for the examination from 25,126 recognised secondary schools in the country.
He said that of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination, 896,894 are male, while 908,322 others are female, representing 49.68 per cent and 50.32 per cent, respectively.
He added that of the 1,814,736 candidates that registered for the examination, only 1,805,216 sat the examination.
He noted that the examination was also administered to candidates from some schools in Benin Republic, Cote d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea, where the Nigerian curriculum for senior secondary schools was being used.
“Out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination in Nigeria, 1,685,889 candidates, representing 93.39 per cent have their results fully processed and released while 119,327 others, representing 6.61 per cent, have one or more of their subjects still being processed, due to some issues being resolved.
“Efforts are, however, speedily ongoing to complete the process and release the affected candidates’ results within a couple of days,” he said.
According to him, the analysis of statistics of candidates’ performance in the examination shows that out of the 1,805,216 candidates that sat for the examination, 1,332,089 representing 73.79 per cent obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects.
He explained that this was with or without English Language and or Mathematics.
(Vanguard)