The Western Examinations Council Has release the result of the 2018 May/June Examination of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Announcing the result in Lagos at the WAEC Training and Testing Centre (WTTC), Ogba, Mr Olu Adenipekun, WAEC’s Head of National Office (HNO) said a total of 786,016 candidates of the 1,572,396 that wrote the examination had five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics representing 49.98 Percent of the Candidate who sat for the Examination.
He Said if the result is been compared to the previous Year result(2016/17) it shows a declination Which was 52.97 in 2016 and 59.22 in 2017.
He also show the statistics for people to see and make Judgement , Adenipekun added that of the total number of student who wrote the Exam , 1,470,338 of the had their result processed and released.
He noted that 102,058 other candidate had there result still been processed, due to Error traceable to the Candidate in the course of registration or while writing the Examination.
The HNO assured that such errors were being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently.
He also said that a total of 1,213,244 candidates obtained credits and above in a minimum of any five subjects, with or without English Language and or Mathematics.
The WAEC official added that 858,424 other candidates obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language but without Mathematics.
Further, Adenipekun acknowledged that there were cases of malpractice but it was minimal.
“For cases that are established as in other previous examinations, the council is already looking at them,” he said.
He added that this year’s examination witnessed the participation of a total of 1,328 candidates with varying degrees of special needs.
According to him, out of the number, 251 candidates are visually challenged, 783 with impaired hearing; 123 others have low vision while 88 others are spastic cum mentally challenged.
He added that 83 of them were physically challenged.
The HNO said that the candidates, who have fulfilled their financial obligations to the council were free to check the details if their performance on the council’s result website.
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