The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released the result of the 2018 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.
WAEC’s Head of Nigeria Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, made the announcement in Lagos on Wednesday.
According to him, 49.98 per cent of the candidates obtained five credits in English Language and Mathematics.
He disclosed that a total of 1,578,846 candidates registered for the examination from 17,886 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria, out of which 1,572,396 candidates sat for the examination.
Of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination in Nigeria, Adenipekun announced, 1,470,338 candidates, representing 93.51% had their results fully processed and released.
102,058 candidates representing 6.49%, he added, had a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to the candidates in the course of registration or writing the examination.
He explained that such errors were being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently.
Giving a breakdown of the results, he stated: “1,213,244 candidates representing 76.84% obtained credits and above in a minimum of any five subjects (i. e with or without English Language and/or Mathematics.
“858,424 candidates representing 54.59% obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects including English Language but without Mathematics.
“786,016 candidates representing 49.98% obtained credits and above in minimum of five subjects including English Language and Mathematics.
“In this category were 389,655 male and 396,361 female, representing 47.32% and 52.92% respectively.”
He added that candidates who sat the examination and who had fulfilled their financial obligations to the Council were free to check the details of their performance on the Council’s results website: www.waecdirect.org.
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Adenipekun pointed out that the result checker pin and serial number needed by candidates to check results online were contained on candidate’s smart identity card used during the conduct of the examination.
“Certificates of candidates whose results have been fully processed and released will be ready in 90 days from today,” he said.
