24th December, 2010
By Kazeem Ugbodaga
Four of the 33 blind candidates who sat for the November/December 2010 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, obtained credits in five subjects.
This was revealed in the results released by the West African Examination Council, WAEC in Lagos State, Southwest Nigeria, yesterday.
According to Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, Head of the Nigeria National office of WAEC, the five credits included English Language. The students were exempted from taken Mathematics and science practicals.
Dr. Uwadiae disclosed that 324,998 candidates registered for the examinations out of which 310,077 candidates, comprising 168,835 male and 141,242 female candidates sat for the examinations.
In the results released, 309,431 candidates had their results fully processed while 15,567 candidates have a few of their subjects still being processed as a result of various errors and omissions mostly traceable to them.
The results of 51,876 candidates, according to Uwadiae were being withheld based on various reports of their alleged involvement in examination malpractice.
He added that 250,487 candidates had two credits and above; 217,161 candidates had three credits and above while 180,480 candidates had four credits and above.
Also, 141,167 candidates obtained five credits and above while 99,750 candidates obtained six credits and above.
The WAEC boss further revealed that 133,507 candidates obtained credits and above in English Language while 151,569 candidates obtained credit and above in Mathematics.
According to Uwadiae, all reports on cases of involvement in examination malpractice had been compiled for presentation to the Nigeria Examinations Committee of the Council in March 2011.
“The committee’s decisions on the various cases would be communicated to the affected candidates shortly through our zonal and branch offices,†he stated.
He called on candidates who sat for the examinations to check the details of their performance with their scratch cards on WAEC’s website within the next 24 hours.
The WAEC henchman stated that in the course of considering the various reported cases of malpractice during the conduct of the May/June 2010 WASSCE, the committee expressed deep concern at the growing incidence of malpractice in examinations in Nigeria and wondered how the nation had gotten to this sorry pass.
