West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released results of West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for private candidates in 2017-First Series, yesterday.
About 11,937 candidates that took part in the newly introduced February examination, obtained minimum credits and above in five subjects including English Language and Mathematics representing 26.01 percent Out of the 11,721 enrolled for the examination.
The Head of Nigeria's Office, Mr. Olu Adenipekun, who announced the release of the result on Tuesday at the Lagos headquarters of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) said he was impressed with the turnout of the candidates and the release of the results in less than one month after the conduct of the examination.
He said, "Out of a total number of 11, 307 candidates that sat for WASSCE, only 17.13 per cent obtained a minimum of credits in five subjects and above including English language and Mathematics."
According to him, the WASSCE for private candidates, 2018 first series took place from January 29, 2018 to February 12, 2018 with about 11,721 registering for the examination out of which 11,307 sat the examination.
"Of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, 6,370 were male and 4,937 were female representing 56.34 per cent and 43.66 per cent respectively", he said.
Giving the analysis of the statistics of candidates' performance, Olanipekun said 8,113 candidates representing 71.75 per cent obtained credits and above in two subjects, 6,375 candidates representing 56.38 per cent obtained Credits and above in three subjects.
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