74% of the private candidates who wrote the 2017 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) failed to achieve five credits (including Maths and English).

Speaking at a press conference in Katsina, the Head of  WAEC's Nigeria National Office, Mr Olu Adenipekun noted that this was a sharp drop in the results recorded in 2016, which recorded a 61.5% failure rate.

Mr. Adenipekun said out of 135,945 candidates that registered for the examination, only 133,223 wrote the test.

He said 131,485 candidates that sat for the examination had their results fully processed and released.

According to Mr. Adenipekun, 1,738 candidates were yet to have their full results released because they had a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to them in the course of registration or writing the examination.

“Such errors are being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently’’, he said.

He said out of all candidates who wrote the examination, 34,664 obtained a minimum of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and General Mathematics, representing 26.01 per cent.

“One will discover that the results for 2015 and 2017 are comparatively the same.
“There can be a reason for the sharp drop this year in this category, which we have not proved scientifically.’’

He said it could be that some candidates needed a particular subject to make up their deficiencies for the WASSCE for the school candidates results, in order to assist them to gain placements into the higher institutions of their choice.

Mr. Adenipekun said 65,483 other candidates obtained credits and above in five subjects while 46,824 obtained credits and above in six subjects.

Similarly, 98,506 candidates obtained credits and above in three subjects while 83,256 candidates obtained credits and above in four subjects, and 11,763 others obtained credits and above in two subjects.

He promised that WAEC would keep introducing innovations that would continually improve the standard of the examination.

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