The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released the result of the candidates that sat for the year 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.
From the total number of 1,538,445 candidates that sat for the examination, 1,456,727 candidates representing 94.69% have their results fully processed and released.
But 81,718 candidates representing 5.31% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some errors on the part of the candidates.
The analysis on the statistics of the performance of candidates showed that, out of 1,538,445 candidates that sat for the examination, 1,338,348 candidates representing 86.99% obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects with or without English Language or Mathematics.
The examination body also announced that the examination was also conducted in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State for the first time in six years since the abduction of over 200 school girls in the area by insurgents.
Results of 215,149 candidates representing 13.98% of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination are being held in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractices.
Candidates who sat for the examination can check their results on the council’s website: www.waecdirect.org.
