Drama, Confusion as WAEC Releases Conflicting, Dowgraded Results

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There was confusion yesterday in Minna, Niger State, as candidates who sat for the May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSSCE) had two conflicting results of the same exam released to them, in the last two weeks, by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC).

The examination body had, two weeks ago, posted on its website results of the examination. However, the council’s office in Minna went ahead at the weekend to post another set of results which were totally different from the earlier set released thereby forcing the candidates to troop to the state WAEC office to ask questions on the authentic result.

When the candidates discovered the conflict in the results, which mostly had worse grades than the first one posted, they gathered themselves in large numbers and went to the state branch of the examination body to verify which of the two results was authentic.

THISDAY spoke to some of the candidates at the WAEC premises yesterday.  They said the examination body graded some of them on subjects they did not register for neither did they sit for them.

According to one of them who craved anonymity, he had conflicting results from Government Secondary School, Minna. He said in the first result, he had “B” in two subjects, “C” in six subjects, including English Language and a “D” in mathematics.

But when he went back to print another copy of the result, he discovered that the council had changed the results and had posted “B” in one subject, “C” in three subjects, while he made “D” in three others, an “E” and an “F” in another subject.

Unlike his performance in the first result that the council had posted, the candidate recorded C5 in English Language and D7 in mathematics, but in the new result, WAEC posted D7 and F9 respectively for the candidate in the two subjects.

Another female candidate from Government Girls Secondary School, Minna, did not only have her result changed, she was given grades in two subjects she did not sit for. Aside from this, her grades in English Language and mathematics were equally different from the former result released. 

When THISDAY contacted the Branch Controller of WAEC in Minna on the issues raised by the candidates, he said the problem affected almost all the candidates and advised that all enquiries on the matter should be directed to the head office of the council.

“Please you may have to go to our headquarters in Lagos. This is not a local problem and there is no branch controller in other affected states that can talk to you over the course of the problem,” he said.

But on a second thought, the controller, who declined to disclose his name, added: “All I can say is that, the problem has been rectified. Candidates can go to the cafe and re-check their results; they will see that what they have on our website now tallies with the initial results released.”