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Results of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE for private candidates has been released WAEC released the first series of the results 30 days after the conduct of the examination across Nigeria. This was disclosed by the Head of WAEC in Nigeria, Mr Olu Olanipekun during a press briefing in Lagos on Tuesday. Mr Olu Olanipekun revealed that the examination which was concluded on February 4 across the federation was marked in three centres in Nigeria, Abeokuta, Enugu and Kaduna between February 15 and February 28. He said: “Today, Tuesday the 3rd day of March, 2020, I am happy to announce the release of the results of candidates that sat the WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2020 – First Series, in Nigeria 30 days after the conclusion of the examination. ALSO READ: When Luck Runs Out “A total of twelve thousand three hundred and ninety-five 12,395, candidates registered for the examination, out of which twelve thousand seventy-five,12,075, candidates sat the examination. Of the total number of candidates that sat the examination six thousand three hundred and thirty-one,6,331, were male and Five thousand seven hundred and forty-four,5,744 were female, representing 52% and 47.57% respectively. “Out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, eleven thousand eight hundred, 11,816 candidates, representing 97.86% have their results fully processed and released while two hundred and fifty nine (259) candidates, representing 2.14% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to the candidates in the course of registration or writing the examination. Such errors are being corrected by the Council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently.” Giving an analysis of candidates performance, Mr Olu Olanipekun disclosed that nine thousand four hundred and thirty-eight,9,438, candidates, representing 78.16% obtained credit and above in two subjects. “Eight thousand one hundred and twenty-five, 8,125 candidates, representing 67.29% obtained credit and above in three (3) subjects; ‘Six thousand seven hundred and thirteen,6,713 candidates, representing 55.59% obtained credit and above in four (4) subjects; “Five thousand two Hundred and Fifty-One, 5,251 candidates, representing 43.49% obtained credit and above in five (5) subjects. “A total of Three Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Two 3,892 candidates, representing 32.23% obtained credit and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects including English Language and General Mathematics. The percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2019 – First Series was 26.08%,” he added. Read the full article

Last Wednesday WAEC results were released with an announcement that only 49.98 per cent of their candidates obtained credit passes and above. Ever since then, Nigerian students who sat for the 2018 West African Examination Council (WAEC) certificate examination have been trooping to WAEC's official website www.waecdirect.org Nigeria to check their WAEC result.   This caused traffic to the website to increase exponentially and in turn, led to a lot of downtime on the site as everyone is eager to check their WAEC result. Check WAEC Results 2018: How To Resolve Problems/any issue If you are one of the candidates having issues trying to check WAEC results 2018, perhaps you are getting error messages, you can now resolve the problem by sending an email to the www.waecdirect.org site administrator. www.waecdirect.org site administrator email is [email protected] According to information on the website, all you need to do is send the following details to [email protected] for verification and assistance: 1. Error message displayed 2. Your examination number 3. Type of Exam 4. Year of Exam. www.waecdirect.org 2018: A total of 1,578,846 candidates registered for the 2018 WAEC examination in Nigeria. Out of this number, 1,572,396 sat for the examination. A total of 786,016 candidates, representing 49.98 per cent who sat for the examination, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects including English Language and Mathematics. The performance, when compared to what was obtained in the same examination in 2016 and 2017, showed a decline Performance in 2016 was 52.97 and in 2017, 59.22 per cent who sat for the examination, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects including English Language and Mathematics. You can clearly see the results declined. WAEC council’s Head of National Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, added that out of the total number of candidates, who wrote the 2018 WAEC examination, 1,470,338 of them had their results fully processed and released. A total of 102,058 other candidates had a few of their subjects still being processed, due to errors traceable to the candidates in the course of registration or while writing the examination. The HNO assured that such errors were being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released subsequently. This year’s examination witnessed the participation of a total of 1,328 candidates with varying degrees of special needs. Out of the 1,328 candidates, 251 candidates were visually challenged, 783 had impaired hearing; 123 others have low vision while 88 others are spastic cum mentally challenged. 83 of them were physically challenged. READ ALSO: How to check 2018 WAEC results online How to check WAEC result without scratch card Police arrest WAEC question/answer syndicate, fake WAEC center operator Read the full article