The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Thursday released its November/December results with a total of 86,612 candidates, representing 29.17% of the total number of candidates who sat for the examination, obtained credits in five subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics.
Announcing the result at the WAEC office, Yaba, Lagos, Head of National Office, Mr Charles Eguridu said that a total of 308,217 candidates registered for the Nov/Dec 2013 WASSCE. 82 blind candidates registered and sat for the examination. From the figure, he noted, 17 candidates, representing 20.73% obtained credits in 5 subjects including English Language and Mathematics.
According to him, 296,827 candidates, consisting of 163,659 male and 133,168 female candidates sat for the examination. Out of the total of candidates, 299,784 candidates, representing 97.26% have their results fully released, while 8,433 candidates, representing 2.74% have a few of their subjects still being proceed.
Eguridu said: “Of the total of candidates that sat the examination, 120,115 candidates, representing 40.46%, obtained 6 credits and above; 161,721 candidates representing 54.48% obtained 5 credits and above. In addition, 198,832 candidates, representing 66.98% obtained credits and above in four subjects while 230,325 candidates representing 77.59 obtained Credits and above in 3 subjects. A total of 256,500 candidates representing 86.41% obtained credits and above in 2 subjects.”
When compared to the November/December 2011 and 2012 WASSCE (Private) results, Eguridu said, there is a marked decline in candidates’ performance.
He said: “In 2011 a total of 139,827 candidates, representing 36.07% obtained credits in 5 subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics.
Also in 2012, a total of 150,615 candidates, representing 37.97% obtained credits in 5 subjects including English Language and Mathematics.”
There was over 8% decline in candidates’ performance as only 29.17% obtained credits in 5 subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics in 2013 WASSCE.
Our youths know that there is no reward for hard work in Nigeria. All they have to do is look around them and see that the classroom ode and thug are the ones rewarded with political office, militancy, yahoo yahoo etc. They are nit stupid
ReplyDeleteA very good result, kudos to our education bodies. u thrill me alot,gone are d days u sit for examinations with confidence dat if waec don't give me my papers ' Neco will'.
ReplyDeleteSome body checked results online this morning and what was written there is " Results not available for this candidate in the specified year'' . What is the problem? Are all results yet to be fully uploaded in the internet?
ReplyDeleteWAEC is the cause of this failure because of their profit drive. This is because WAEC do not always control those who enroll for the examinations. Many of those that always sit for this examinations are SS1 and SS2 students who could not even pass the internal examinations in their school, but because of WAEC profit drive, they would not scrutinize the students. There was a time WAEC said only candidates that sat for May/June would be qualified to write the November/December, but are actually doing that? Well, I want to congratulate WAEC for this result, despite all the examinations malpractices that many of these students engaged in. I think WAEC should do more to always fish out those who engaged in examinations malpractices, especially their supervisor that usually connive with the students and the invigilators and also prosecute them. There is a bill on examination malpractices but I have never saw WAEC prosecuted any candidate. WAEC should reward their supervisors highly may be that would discourage many of them from all these ill.
ReplyDeleteI think NE needs an editor asap. How can 17 candidates represent 20.73% of 296,827 that sat for the exam? (Paragraph 2, lines 3 and 4). Many of your publications are having serious syntax (grammatical) and logical errors these days. If it is not the representation of a man with the pronoun she and vice versa, it is the presentation of wrong values as the outcome of basic arithmetic.
ReplyDeleteAlways review your article before publishing, it portrays you as a credible source. This comment is for your review and doesn't necessarily need to be published.
I'm on side as to NE. They should edit professionally. It's a professional policy.
DeleteYou cannot treat the symptom and expect the disease to go away you have to treat the cause of the disease. Truth be told students cheat because at the end of the school year they still do not know or understand the subject matter especially in mathematics. If they understand what they need to know they will have no need to malpractice. If this problem has been consistent for over decade and is happening at all levels of education in Nigeria, then is safe to say the method used in teaching in Nigeria is broken. The question we need to ask is why do students not fully understand concepts presented in school. The answer is simple - the method in which we teach students mathematics in schools. We love and emulate western music, lifestyle, dress code and much more, yet the thing we need to emulate the most as a society, western world method of education we failed to recognize. America and other advanced countries use modern day technological tools (video demonstrations, rich media) to teach in order to make learning interesting and understandable for students. It is not too late to make necessary changes. We need to start now and treat the root, we need to start at the primary level so by the time the children get to secondary school or university they will have a solid foundation needed to excel. To learn more on how you can use video demonstrations to teach children mathematics in an interesting and engaging way visit www.the123ofmaths.com
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