When WAEC was WAEC: Back in the days

Yet again, Nigerian students fare poorly in WAEC examination.  It’s time to go back to the basics

Only 38.68 per cent of the 1.593 million students, who sat the 2015 West African Senior Schools Certificate Examination (WASSCE), passed with credits in five subjects including English Language and Mathematics.  That is another sobering reminder of the deep-rooted nature of the educational challenges currently facing Nigeria.

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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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The National Orientation Agency (NOA) has said it is still carrying out programmes to tackle examination malpractices among students.

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Stakeholders in the education sector have described the non-release of West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) of 13 debtor states as a national embarrassment.
Some respondents, who spoke with NAN on Tuesday in Abuja, said that the governors were politicking with the education of their subjects.