62% pass English, Maths as WAEC releases reviewed results

In a reviewed result released by the management of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), 62.96 per cent of candidates who wrote the West African Senior School Certificate Exams (WASSCE) obtained credits and above in the minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. The figure emanated from the 1,969,313 candidates who sat for […]

In a reviewed result released by the management of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), 62.96 per cent of candidates who wrote the West African Senior School Certificate Exams (WASSCE) obtained credits and above in the minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

The figure emanated from the 1,969,313 candidates who sat for the examination, out of which 1,239,884 passed the five subjects, indicating a 24.68 increase compared to the 754,545 candidates, representing 38.32 per cent earlier announced.

WAEC attributed the initial mass failure to the wrong serialised code file used in printing the English Language objective tests (paper 3).

The examination body had attributed the poor performance to the deployment of a serialisation approach to four subjects, which were English Language, Biology, Economics and Mathematics in this year’s examination.

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The serialisation approach aimed at curbing examination malpractice involved differentiating questions on candidates’ papers. 

Weekend Trust reported that this year’s results triggered a flood of complaints from relevant bodies in the education sector, largely due to the mass failure in the English Language, which appeared to prompt the examination body to conduct a review.

Admitting the errors encountered during the examination body’s internal post-examination review, the council’s head of Nigeria’s office, Amos Dangut, during a press briefing held yesterday, attributed it to printing flaws, saying it was erroneously done by one of its service providers.