WAEC Withholds Over 5000 Results As It Releases 2020 WASSCE Results (Check Here)

WAEC announced that the examination body withheld over 5000 results as its released 2020 WASSCE results.

OnyxNews Nigeria reports that the West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released results for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination for private candidates.

This online news platform understands that the Head of Nigerian National Office of WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, made the announcement on Monday at a news conference at Yaba headquarters office of the examination body.

A total of 61,509 candidates sat for the examination at 540 designated centres nationwide, out of which 24,491 (representing 39.82%) obtained credits and above in at least five mandatory subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

Mr Patrick said the results of 61,111 (representing 99.35%) of the total candidates who sat the exam had been fully processed and released while that of 5,548 candidates (representing 9.02%) are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of exam malpractices.

He disclosed their cases would be investigated to determine their fate if their results would be eventually released or cancelled.

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Giving more details, Areghan said 12,040 out of the total 30,507 male candidates who sat for the exam (representing 49.60%) of the total candidates had the minimum credit pass in five mandatory subjects while 12,451 out of the total 31,002 female candidates (representing 50.40%) had similar results, indicating that more females did better, just like the two previous editions, than their male counterparts in the exam.

He also stated that a total of 101 candidates with special needs including visually (39) and hearing (15) impaired and spastic cum mentally challenged sat the exam and that all their results had been fully processed and released with that of others.

Areghan who said apart from having fewer candidates registered for the exam this year unlike that of last year which was 94,884, a total of 4,871 candidates didn’t write the exam, attributing the situation largely to the surging coronavirus.

While revealing that three essay papers, namely: Economics 2, Commerce 2 and Civic Education 2 were marked electronically, he announced that private candidates of the council’s exams are now requesting for their certificates electronically and this started with last edition.

The WEAC head however, said candidates can now start checking their results on the council’s website, given as www.waecdirect.org.