THE West African
Examinations Council (WAEC)
Wednesday released the
results of this year’s May/
June West African Senior
School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE).
Though the actual number
of candidates who made five
effective credits could not be
ascertained, but a
breakdown of the
candidates’ performances by
Council’s Head of Nigeria
National Office, Mr. Charles
Eguridu, shows that out of 1,
671, 268 candidates that sat
for the examination, 889,
636, representing 53.2 per
cent made six credits and
above, while 1, 074, 065
candidates, representing
64.2 per cent made five
credits and above.
Also, 1, 225, 591
candidates (73 per cent)
obtained credits and above
in four subjects, while 1,
465, 581 (87.69 per cent)
made credit passes in just
two subjects.
Effective credits refer to
passes in five papers,
including Mathematics and
English Language, which a
candidate must obtain to
qualify for admission to the
university.
However, 145, 505
candidates would still have
to wait for a few of their
subjects to be fully
processed, due to errors
traceable to the candidates
and the schools they
registered. Besides, the
results of 112, 865
candidates, about 6.75 per
cent of the total, are being
withheld over various cases
of examination malpractice.
Their cases are being
investigated, while the
report of the investigation
would be presented to the
Nigerian Education Committee
in due course.
This notwithstanding, a
total of 1, 543, 683
candidates, representing
91.3 per cent, got their full
results.
Eguridu explained that
some candidates, who wrote
the examination in some
northern parts of the
country, would not have
their full results, because
their scripts got missing due
to security challenges, which
claimed the lives of three
WAEC staff members.
He said: “Most of the
results were released, but
we still have a few misplaced
ones, due to insurgent
attacks, where some of our
officers were murdered and
the scripts of some, but not
all the subjects, were
removed.
“WAEC conducted
examination in all the 36
states of the federation,
including the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT). We did not
envisage these challenges.
Our goal is to use some
measures to track some of
the results, based on
statistics of general
performance.”
While he assured that the
council had statistical
records to track some of the
missing scripts, Eguridu,
however, affirmed that
candidates, whose entire
scripts went missing due to
insurgent attacks, would
have no choice but to rewrite
the examination, but at no
cost.
On the performance trend,
he said: “We cannot rule out
the fact that the security
challenges would affect
performance and there might
be a possible decline after
the release of the final
results. But this can be
attributed to the emotional
trauma associated with fear
for students writing under
such hostile conditions,
where we even lost some
members of staff.”
On measures being put in
place to check security
challenges during
subsequent examination,
Eguridu said the council was
collaborating with the
Minister of Education,
National Assembly and other
security agencies, to ensure
the smooth conduct of the
next examination.
After a slight drop in 2010,
performance in WASSCE, in
respect of candidates who
made five effective credits,
had recorded a marginal
improvement. In 2009, 25.5
per cent of the candidates
who sat for the examination
made five credits, including
English language and
Mathematics. In 2010,
performance dropped to
23.36 per cent, but rose to
30.9 per cent in 2011 before
peaking at 39 per cent in
2012.

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