WAEC Releases 2024 WASSCE Results

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

The results were released on Monday, December 30 after marking was delayed by the breakdown of scanners.

In a statement, the Council said the results had been forwarded to schools for access by candidates. That notwithstanding, it said candidates could check their results online.

“The West African Examination Council wishes to inform it’s numerous publics that it has released provisional results of candidates who sat for the WASSCE for school to heads of schools to enable them access the results of their candidates.”

Results
According to data from the Council, 317, 701 (69.52%) of the candidates scored between A1-C6 in English while 305,132 (66.86%) had between A1-C6 in Mathematics.

With Integrated Science, 268,072 (58.77%) scored between A1-C6 while 325, 253 (71.53%) had between A1-C6 in Social Studies.

Irregularities
The Council also reported the cancellation of subject results of 4,108 candidates for taking foreign materials like prepared notes, textbooks and printed materials into examination hall while it cancelled the entire results of 483 candidates for possession of mobile phones in examination halls.

Additionally, it relayed that the subject results of 781 and entire results of 209 candidates had been withheld for various suspected offences.

It furthered, “Subject results of candidates from 319 schools have been withheld for alleged collusion. These cases are still under investigation. The withheld results of these candidates may be released or cancelled depending on the outcome of the investigations.”

Candidates Stat
A total of 460,611 candidates from 1003 schools sat for this year’s examination.

Of that, 212,954 were males and 247,657 females.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini