Waec Releases Results, 83% Of Candidates Fail

only in Nigeria is where  WEAC  administrators are not held accountable. How could you  survive in business if  you incure 83% loss? Imagine  living a life where  you have 83% failure. I remember some of my professors  saying that nobody has ever scored an "A" in their courses. Its only In Nigeria where we don't think about consequences of our actions. I asked one of my profs " if nobody gets  an A in your course, do you expect your kids or grand kids to be taught by smart foks or  "dummies" who got out of the system with  " let my people go grades"  C's and D's. That's  why  is so freaking  hard to let PhD students graduate in Naija because their Profs wont let them.

There is absolutely no effort or plan in place by the Government to give Education the priority it deserves.

Compare the performance to that in the UK this 2008.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7574073.stm

@bilymuse
According to the bell curve, in every class, there are 10% very intelligent, 10% not so smart (in naija we like to call them "olodos") and 80% in between. There are reasons why students fall in this categories starting with the bottom 10 (but first of all, in case you didn't know, a high I.Q is something you develop, and not necessarily something you were born with). Kids in the bottom 10% usually have problems understanding things easily either because of some learning disability like ADD (Attention deficiency disorder), dyslexia, autism and the others. Some don't even come from a home that focuses on education; remember that for education to work, three agents have to be working simultaneously at the same time; the teacher, student and parent. If one is missing, the education process collapses, if the teacher is committed and is a good and knowledgeable teacher and the student on the other hand is not cooperative then it doesn't work, or if the parents don't contribute by helping the child, then its not going to work or worst of all, if the teacher doesn't know anything like the ones i had in secondary schools (what do you expect from an HND holder).
Now back to what i was talking about. If the child watches more than 3 hours of TV each week, or doesn't get at least the adequate hours of sleep, then the kid is in biiiiiiig trouble because he or she would find it extremely hard to pay attention in class because he would always be thinking about the movie on TV or video games. In some cases, students need there education to be visualized because as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words (it won't hurt if our educational system were more practical especially when it comes to the sciences. 

A huge reason why a lot of kids do poorly in math is not only because the teachers are lazy ( partly because they are underpaid, undertrained or even undermanned: how could a teacher teach 8 classes in a day) but they are not well trained in teaching methods. For example, anybody would tell you that the key to knowing math is repitition repitition repitition. It sounds obvious but we don't practice it. I remember when i was in primary school that the teacher only gave us homework once a week instead of everyday and also providing one one one sessions where they could explain it to us a lot better (its usually hard for some kids to pay attention or follow the teacher when you have 15 students in a class, let alone 50 students crammed like sardines in smelly and really hot conditions where kids are fanning themselves because the fans don't even work). If teachers can focus on "one on ones" with students and less on yelling, flogging (nothing wrong with flogging but should only be done when a kid is being unruly and disruptive in a class, not when the student doesn't understand the material) and being impatient with them, they would learn more. Teachers should create a friendly atmosphere for learning and not one of terror.

In naija, our teachers are sooooooo lazy that they only focus on the top 10% and don't care much about the other 90%. My mother used to say that when she was in secondary school, the teacher would only focus on the top 4 smartest kids in the class, if they understood the chapter, then he was moving to the next, he couldn't be bothered about the others in the class. Thank God, she had the drive and ambition to teach herself and spend unbelievable hours a day studying extra if not she would have gotten nowhere. Now for every case like my mom, there are 10 other kids who don't have the drive and therefore end up in the arts or other unprofitable majors simply because they've been told that they are not good enough. Its no wonder that Nigeria has the lowest amount of engineers per capita or that we have the one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world (basically, we have a health crisis), its because we have an acute shortage of doctors.This kids need to be encouraged (and coerced in some cases) and to be drilled with the self belief that they can accomplish anything they want to and that means putting them in direct competition with the so called smartest kids in class so that they know where they stand because some of this kids are just late bloomers like Albert Einstein.

My Guy, WAEC = examiners, not teachers. Stop blaming them and focus your anger at the students and teachers

the 83% failure in WAEC exam,  is a true reflection of Nigeria as a nation:
Nigeria is 83% a failure in all aspect of human endeavour