Of the 65,073 candidates who sat for the second sequence of the 2024 West African Senior Secondary Certificates Examinations (WASSCE), 34,878, representing 53.6% of the inhabitants, handed.
In accordance with the examination’s officiating physique, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), this group obtained credit score and above in a minimal of 5 topics, together with English Language and Arithmetic, that are obligatory topics.
The council additional famous that 43,923 candidates, representing 67.55% of those that sat for the examination, obtained credit score and above in a minimal of 5 topics, with or with out English Language and/or Arithmetic.
The outcomes of two,577 candidates had been withheld.
WAEC said that their outcomes had been withheld as a result of allegations of examination malpractice.
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It has directed candidates on this class to go online to the WAEC Examination Malpractice Portal to reply to the allegations.
WAEC added that it will examine all reported instances of examination malpractice.
“All reported instances will probably be investigated, together with reveals obtained, alongside candidates’ representations lodged on the portal.
“These will probably be evaluated, and reviews offered to the suitable committee of the council for willpower. The committee’s choice(s) will probably be communicated on to the affected candidates,” the council famous in a press assertion.
