Waec Results For 2000-2007

WAEC: Edo tops list of average performers
From Bukola Olatunji in Abuja, 04.29.2007
Sunday, April 29, 2007

Edo State, with an abysmal average of 38.42 percent, ranked first among the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) in the West African Examinations Council (WAEC)’s Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), conducted between 2000 and 2006.

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Rivers State came second with 33.24 per cent and Bauchi State, third with 31.04 per cent.

These represent the percent of candidates who obtained credit passes in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

At the bottom of the list is Katsina State with an average of 2.25 percent, while Gombe and Kebbi States came 36th and 35th respectively, with 2.66 percent and 3.47 percent. The national average pass is 11 percent.

Bayelsa State led the pack in the National Examinations Council (NECO)’s SSCE with an average of 50.50 percent, followed by Edo with 45.39 percent and Ogun State with 40.73 percent. This time, Yobe State brought up the rear with 4.68 percent, while Gombe and Adamawa States came 36th and 35th respectively, with 5.23 and 6.03 percent.

The national average here is about 17 percent. Minister of Education, Mrs. Obiageli Ezekwesili, who presented the figures in her valedictory Press briefing in her office yesterday observed that "with the huge problem of examination malpractice, this is how woefully they (the students) are performing.

Ironically, the Ezekwesili further noted, “Edo State has the highest incidence of examination malpractice in the federation.” This, she said should challenge governments at all levels.

She regretted that, “over a period of seven years, WAEC results for the various states, except Imo show less than 30 percent success rate…Such poor academic achievement of our children is not due to their own inability, it is because our own society has failed them in providing the enabling environment for them to succeed. Every state must take a look at its own performances.”

Ogun State came first in the provision of infrastructure with an average score of 51.74 percent, followed by Lagos State with 47.30 percent and FCT with 42.33 percent. At the rear (35th, 36th and 27th positions) were Jigawa, Bayelsa and Taraba States. A general ranking of the relationship between infrastructure and academic performance also showed Ogun at the top of the list, followed by Edo and Lagos, with a score of 38.02, 37.01 and 34.90 percent, respectively.