THE West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has released the result of the 2019 May/June West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination withholding 180,205 results of candidates found to have involved in examination malpractices.
Head of Nigeria National Office Olu Adenipekun who announced the release of the result at a press briefing in Lagos at the council’s national office in Yaba, Lagos said of about 1.6million candidates who sat for the 2019 WASSCE, the females performed better than their male counterparts in securing a minimum of five credits including English and Mathematics.
He said a total of 1,596,161 candidates registered for the examination from 18,639 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria.
The examination body chief also disclosed that the results of 1,468,071 candidates, representing 92.32 per cent of candidates that sat for the examination, were fully processed; while 122,102, representing 7.68 per cent of candidates that sat for the examination had a few of their subjects still being processed.
Adenipekun explained that out of 1,590,173 candidates who sat for the examination, 822,098 were male while 768,075 were female, representing 51.70 percent and 48.30 percent respectively.
“No fewer than 1,309,570 candidates representing 82.35 percent obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects, i.e with or without English Language and/or Mathematics; while 1,020,519 candidates, representing 64.18 percent, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
He remarked that this was an improvement against the 2018 result in which 49.98 percent of the total candidates passed, which is a 14.2 increase from the last examination result.
Of this number, 507,862, that is 49.77 percent, were males and 512,657, that is 50.23 percent, were female candidates.
“The percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE for School Candidates was 50 percent in 2018,” Adenipekun said.
He noted 299 were visually challenged, 842 had impaired hearing, 158 had low vision, 75 were spastic cum mentally challenged and 85 were physically challenged.