Over 700, 000 Candidates Fail WAEC

Kunle Awosiyan, Lagos - 19.09.2009

THE performance of Nigerian candidates in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination is yet to improve as only 25 per cent of them passed the May/June 2009 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

In other words, the statistics showed that over 700, 000 out of 1, 273, 099 candidates who sat for the examination failed the examination without ‘any credit’ in English Language and Mathematics.

This was disclosed, on Friday, when the Head of National Office of the Council, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, announced the results, saying that 356, 981 candidates passed with five credits including English Language and Mathematics out of over 1.2 million that sat the examination.

It will be recalled that 23.5 per cent of the candidates passed the examination last year with most of them having their results withheld due to various malpractices.

Out of the successful candidates, Uwadiae said 116, 729 of them were science students; 33,024 social science while 100, 632 were arts-oriented.

While analysing the results, he stated that the results of 109, 201 candidates were being withheld due to alleged involvement in examination practices.

According to him, 1, 007, 659 candidates have two credits and above; 860, 665 have three credits and above, 718, 269 have four credits and above; 574,108 candidates obtained five credits and above while 426, 244 candidates have six credits and above but without English Language and Mathematics.




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Flipping Hell!!! 700, 000 failed Maths and English?! They couldn't have been taught by same teachers. Even if they were taught by same teachers,I am sure they had textbooks and past questions they could have used for revision.
Ah! Something is wrong somewhere oh.

Topic already exists here: WAEC 2009 May/June SSCE: Results Are Out!

Someone should please help me because my english is outstanding,please whn knows how long it takes waec to release outstanding result or who could hint me on what to do.