What in Gods name is happening to our Education Sector? Is it that this exam questions are too tough for students?By Funmi Ajumobi
Though the 2015 results from the Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE), conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), are a slight improvement on the ones from last year's, they are still nothing to write home about.
The Head of Nigerian Office, WAEC, Mr Charles Eguridu, who announced the 2015 results at his Yaba Office, said: "Out of 1,593,442 candidates who sat for the examinations, only 616,370 candidates, representing 38.68%, obtained credits in five subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics."
Speaking on the slight improvement in the results from previous years, Eguridu said that in 2014, 529,425, representing 31.28 per cent, obtained five credits in English and Mathematics while, in 2013, total candidates who obtained five credits in English and Mathematics were 639,760, representing 38.30 per cent.
Getting 38% in any examination is nothing to be reckoned with in any part of the world. In fact, such a result means automatic repeat for any student at any level of examination.
The failure of most of the students in the 2015 exams must have further impoverished parents who went through thick and thin to register their wards, buying registration cards, result check cards and all sorts of cards that now characterise examinations in our education sector, but enriched the government and the communication sector players.
SOURCE: ALL AFRICA
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