NewStats: 3,265,222 , 8,186,058 topics. Date: Friday, 13 June 2025 at 10:40 PM 5266

The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has, in its released 2016 Nov/Dec West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, results said that it withheldthe results of 13,488 (Thirteen Thousand Four Hundred and Eighty Eight) candidates, representing 7.81% over various cases of examination malpractices.
Announcing the results yesterday (Friday) in Lagos, the Head of National Office, Nigeria, Mr Olu Adenipekun also said that 38.50 per cent had credit in Mathematics and English Language.WASSEC candidateHe said that candidates results of this year have remarkable improvement to that of 2015 and 2014.According to him, the percentage of candidates that obtained five credits and above including English Language and Mathematics in the WASSCE for Private Candidates in 2014 and 2015 was 29.37 percent and 20.59 percent respectively In the breakdown of the results, he said: “A total of 66,497 (Sixty Six Thousand Four Hundred and Ninety Seven) candidates, representing 38.50%, obtained credits in five (5) subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.
“The percentage of candidates that obtained five (5) credits and above including English Language and Mathematics in the WASSCE for Private Candidates in 2014 and 2015was 29.37% and 20.59% respectively.
“19 (Nineteen) visually challenged candidates ed for and sat the examination in Nigeria.
From this figure, 4 (Four) candidates, representing 21.05% obtained credit in five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
”“Of the total number of 172,699 (One Hundred and Seventy Two Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety Nine) candidates that sat for the examination, 149,651 (One Hundred and Forty Nine Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty One) candidates, representing 86.65% obtained credits and above in two (2) subjects; 134,152 (One Hundred andThirty Four Thousand One Hundred and Fifty Two) candidates, representing 77.67% obtained credits and above in three (3) subjects, while 116,133 (One Hundred and Sixteen Thousand One Hundred and Thirty Three) candidates, representing 67.25% obtained credits and above in four (4) subjects.
““95,294 (Ninety Five Thousand Two Hundred and Ninety Four) candidates, representing 55.18% obtained credits and above in five (5)subjects, while 72,229 (Seventy Two Thousand Two Hundred and Twenty Nine) candidates, representing 41.82% obtained credits and above in six (6) subjects.
He, however said that candidates who sat the examination will be able to check the details of their performance on the Council’s website: www.waecdirect.org withinthe next twenty-four hours.
source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/12/waec-withholds-results-13488-candidates-released-novdec-exam-record/
cc: lalasticlala Dominique mynd44

13k500 withheld?

That was a lot of cheating that took place. But how do WAEC determine who cheats or not?

Almost 14k is a lot.

Nigeria!!

.Chaii.
38.50% best in Five years ago. where is education heading to for Christ sake.

May God help us all.

This is what you get when the country is littered with so many special centres

What more can one expect from a government of Grand Pa Buh Buh?

Good for them,they can now proceed wit their clearance

A whooping "close to" 14k results withheld? I call them "customer daa aaada ni". Waec use Dem to open office for consequent years

pple sti deh write wasce

The performance is not encouraging.

ok

phlio666:
pple sti deh write wasce

see the stupid question this kid dey ask hin head.
Naughty boy

Well

Poor performance!

hmmm

That moment when you smile to a Cyber Cafe to check your result and your Dad has rightly told you that 2016 WAEC GCE is your last chance and you've already written four times and you're close to 30...

B

So fast

phlio666:
pple sti deh write wasce

See more sportfeedz.com

wonderful1

Chai

Failure rate is quite high

This is what you get when the hogo pejoratively hobnobs with the hobgbolin.
Then i ask my self this rheutorical question
Why do the percentage of the candidates that write GCE is not always up to 50%?

from what I marked n checked(i checked south west region) and what am seeing , Its either those students blast the objective questions or waec dashed dem some marks...

Cos d maths theory scripts where nothing to write home abt... d
students were just writing 'lubbish'

happy for dem anyway.

if you graduated and served(nysc) in most towns other than their state capitals. i am sure you will agree with these stats.

tundejoseph4:
na 98% do runs. infact na all of dem, but na 14k5 u fit catch simple

I tell you my brother. That reminds me of the school I did my Teaching Practice some months back. I told the school management to allow me do part-time teaching since the English teacher left during the exercise. The school principal agreed but only on one condition - I would come supply answers when next the WAEC exam would be conducted. I turned down the offer and he was like, 'which church do you attend?'lol. Must I attend a church before I know what is good and bad? I told him I was just being a moralist which I still am. The system of education in this country is total whack. It is well sha..

alex81:
from what I marked n checked(i checked south west region) and what am seeing , Its either those students blast the objective questions or waec dashed dem some marks...

Cos d maths theory scripts where nothing to write home abt... d
students were just writing 'lubbish'

happy for dem anyway.

has the result been ed on their page?

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alex81:
from what I marked n checked(i checked south west region) and what am seeing , Its either those students blast the objective questions or waec dashed dem some marks...

Cos d maths theory scripts where nothing to write home abt... d
students were just writing 'lubbish'

happy for dem anyway.

Good evening sir, please do you have any idea how they mark the WAEC physics exams? like how the marks are allotted to Obj, essay and practical. I didn't quite do my physics practical very well, because of the irregularities in what we were asked to measure.