The West African Examinations Council has withheld the outcomes of 215,267 candidates from the 2024 West African Senior Faculty Certificates Examination.
This determine represents 11.92 per cent of the 1,805,216 candidates who took the examination.
The 2024 WASSCE commenced on Tuesday, thirtieth April 2024, and concluded on twenty fourth June 2024.
Talking on Monday whereas asserting the discharge of the 2024 WASSCE outcomes, the Head of the Nigeria Workplace, WAEC, Dr Amos Dangut, said that the outcomes had been withheld in reference to varied reported circumstances of examination malpractice.
He defined that this determine was 4.37 per cent decrease than the 16.29 per cent recorded within the WASSCE for Faculty Candidates in 2023.
Dangut burdened that the Council would proceed to sanction all circumstances of examination malpractice, noting that colleges, supervisors, lecturers, and candidates concerned in such practices had been undermining the tutorial system.
He stated, “The growing use of cellphones within the examination corridor, regardless of the present ban, and organised dishonest in some colleges, are different nagging points. All of the circumstances are being investigated, and reviews of the investigations can be offered to the suitable committee of the Council for consideration and remaining selections.”
He added, “The committee’s selections can be communicated to the affected candidates via their varied colleges in the end. Candidates affected by these selections can now search redress for his or her malpractice circumstances by way of our web site in the event that they so want. All fingers should, due to this fact, be on deck to sanitise the system.”
Dr Dangut additionally revealed that 73.79 per cent of candidates obtained credit score or above in a minimal of any 5 topics, with or with out English Language and/or Arithmetic. This determine represents 1,332,089 candidates out of the overall 1,805,216 who sat the examination.
He additional inspired candidates, stating, “As WASSCE for Faculty Candidates, 2024 outcomes are being uploaded on the outcomes web site, candidates ought to, after checking their outcomes on-line, apply for his or her Digital Certificates, which can be launched 48 hours thereafter.”
He added, “Candidates who’ve fulfilled their monetary obligations to the Council can entry their outcomes on the Council’s outcomes web site inside the subsequent 12 hours. Copies of the Outcome Itemizing can be despatched to colleges shortly.”
The examination was performed in 4 WAEC member international locations: Nigeria, The Gambia, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
