The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the 2024 West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for the May/June examination.
WAEC’s Head of Nigeria Organisation, Amos Dangut, who announced this on Monday, stated that results of 1,685,889 candidates, accounting for 93.9% were released.
Dangut added that although insecurity hampered the conduct of the exam in different areas of the country, 1,805, 216 candidates registered for the WASSCE.
“WAEC is releasing its results today as out of 1,805,216 that entered for exam, 1,332, 089 candidates have credits in five subjects, including any subjects with either Mathematics or English language; and 1,301,949 candidates got credits in five subjects including Mathematics and English language, accounting for 72.9% of total candidates.
“This is a 7.6% decrease in examination performance, compared to last year of 2023 WASSCE.
Also 215,267 results were withheld due to examination malpractice by the candidates. This accounts for 11.92% of the total number of candidates who wrote the examination,” Dangut said.
