The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who sat for the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The Head of Public Affairs, Agnes Teye-Cudjoe in a statement said the Council will make available login details to Heads of schools to enable them to print the statement of results of their candidates.
The West African Examination Council revealed that out of the total of 446,352 candidates, made up of 221,439 (49.6 %) males and 224,913 (50.4 %) females from 965 schools who sat for the examination, over 140,000 candidates score F9 in Maths, English.
On a whole, only 54.0 percent scored grades ranging from Al to C6, representing a drop of 3 percentages points from last year’s 57.34 percentage score for the same grade range.
For English, the percentage of students who scored A1 to C6 dropped from 65.71 percent in 2020 to 54.11 percent in 2021.
WAEC has explained the entire results of 3,667 candidates have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractices detected during and after the conduct of the examination.
The scripts of candidates from 194 schools in certain subjects have also been withheld
and are being scrutinised.
