The West Africa Examination Council, WAEC has
recorded mass failure in the just released May/June
2014 West African Senior School Certificate
Examination (WASSCE) results.
The mass failure which was recorded in both
Mathematics and English Language was analyzed by
the Head of National Office, WAEC, Mr. Charles
Eguridu earlier today saying: “A total of 529,425
candidates, representing 31.28%, obtained credits in
five (5) subjects and above, including English
Language and Mathematics.”
Vanguard reports that the WAEC National Office Head
noted that there was a great decrease in the
performance of candidates if this year’s results were
to be compared with that of previous years. He further
revealed that results belonging to about 145, 795 are
being withheld in connection with one examination
malpractice or the other.
He further said that out of the 1,692,435 candidates
that sat for the examination, 791,227 candidates,
representing only 46.75%, obtained 6 credits and
above, just as a total of 982,472 candidates
representing 58.05%, obtained 5 credits and above.

what do u say?

What do you expect? In this age where kids prefer TV to their books, where they prefer visiting their friends to visiting the library, where they prefer facebook to their textbook..... Smh

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