WAEC WITHHOLDS 11% RESULTS OF THE 2021 WASSCE

The West African Examinations Council has said 81.7 per cent of the candidates made credits and above with a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics in the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination result.

About 1,274,784 million is 81.7 per cent of the total of 1,560,261 million candidates who sat for the examination.

Areghan mentioned that out of the 1,560,261 million candidates that sat the examination, 1,398,370 million candidates, representing 89.62%, obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects (i.e with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics).

The Head, Nigeria National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, While announcing the release of the WASSCE result on Monday, explained that there was an appreciable 16.46 per cent improvement, saying the percentage of candidates in the category in the WASSCE for school candidates, 2020 was 65.24 per cent.

He said, “1,256,990 million candidate out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination in Nigeria, representing 80.56% have their results fully processed and released while 303,271 candidates, representing 19.44 per cent have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some issues being resolved.”

He also complained about the activities of rogue-website operators and some other social media platforms, who always post examination questions online immediately after the commencement of the paper being administered.

“The results of 170,146 candidates, representing 10.9 per cent of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.