Friday released the results of the 2016
West African Senior School Certificate
Examination, which turned out to be the
best in ten years, as more than half of the
candidates who sat for the exam passed.
Announcing the 2016 results at the national
office of the Council on Friday, the Head,
Nigeria National Office, WAEC, Mr. Olu
Adenipekun, said 878,040 candidates,
representing 52.97 per cent of the
1,544,234 candidates who sat for the
examination, had credits in five subjects,
including Mathematics and English.
He noted that it was an improvement to the
31.28 per cent and 38.68 per cent of
candidates who passed the five subjects in
the exam in 2014 and 2015 respectively.
Meanwhile, on request, an information
made available to one of our
correspondents on Friday by the Head,
Public Affairs, WAEC Nigeria, Demianus
Ojijeogu, showed that the Council recorded
36.57 per cent pass in five subjects
including Maths and English in 2013; 38.81
per cent pass in 2012; 24.94 per cent in
2010; 25.99 per cent in 2009 and 25.54 per
cent in 2007.
According to Adenipekun, while 1,393,907
candidates representing 90.26 per cent had
their results fully released, 158,718
candidates, representing 9.74 per cent, have
a few of their results still being processed
due to some errors mainly traceable to the
candidates and schools in the course of
registration or writing the examination.
He,
however, said such errors were being
corrected by the Council to enable the
affected candidates get their results fully
processed and released subsequently.
He pointed out that the results of 137,295
candidates, representing 8.89 per cent were
being withheld in connection with various
cases of examination malpractice, adding
that the cases were being investigated and
reports of the investigation would be
presented to the appropriate committee of
the Council in due course and the
committee’s decisions would be
communicated to the affected candidates
through their schools.
Adenipekun said candidates would be able
to assess their results as from today,
adding that 133 visually impaired
candidates sat for the examination. He said
23 of them, representing 17.29 per cent,
obtained credit in five subjects, including
Mathematics and English.
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