WAEC releases 2024 WASSCE results, withholds results of 215,267 candidates

By Emmanuel Adeleke

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the results of the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates (WASSCE).

The examination body disclosed this in a post on its X account, on Monday.

“The West African Examinations Council is pleased to inform candidates who sat for WASSCE 2024, that the result has officially been released today, Monday, August 12, 2024,” the post read.

Meanwhile, WAEC’s Head of Nigeria National Office, Dr Amos Dangut, has described the exams, which was the first to be conducted during his tenure as a success.

Dangut stated this while addressing newsmen at the office of the examination on Yaba, Lagos State.

“The conduct of the WASSCE for school candidates in 2024, the first conducted under my administration, was a huge success. Meanwhile, after my assumption of office, WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2023-Second Series and the novel computer-based WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2024-First Series were successfully conducted,” he said.

Dangut revealed that the results of 1,685,889 candidates, accounting for 93.9% of the candidates were released.

He added that though insecurity hampered the conduct of the exams in different parts of the country, 1,805, 216 candidates registered for WASSCE.

“WAEC is releasing its results today. Out of 1,805, 216 that entered for the exam, 1,332, 089 candidates have credits in five subjects including any subjects with either Mathematics or English Language and 1,301,949 candidates got credits in five subjects including Mathematics and English Language accounting for 72.9% of total candidates.

“This is a 7.6 per cent decrease in examination performance compared to 2023 WASSCE. Also 215,267 results were withheld due to examination malpractice by the candidates. This accounts for 11.92% of the total number of candidates who wrote the examination,” Dangut said.

The WAEC boss also highlighted four challenges encountered during the conduct of the examinations.

According to him, they are security concerns, non-adherence to registration deadlines, financial issues/inflation and rogue website operators/shameless connivance of some supervisors.