By Felicia Udeji
The West African Examinations Council has released the results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates, 2024.
The results were made available to candidates on Monday.
The examination body disclosed this in a post on X today.
The message read, “The West African Examinations Council is pleased to inform candidates who sat for the exams for school candidates, 2024 that the result has officially been released today, August 12, 2024.”
The Council has also stated that it has withheld the results of 215,267 candidates from the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
This figure represents 11.92 per cent of the 1,805,216 candidates who took the examination.
The 2024 WASSCE commenced on Tuesday, 30th April 2024, and concluded on 24th June 2024.
Speaking on Monday while announcing the release of the 2024 WASSCE results, the Head of the Nigeria Office, WAEC, Dr Amos Dangut, stated that the results were withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.
He explained that this figure was 4.37 per cent lower than the 16.29 per cent recorded in the WASSCE for School Candidates in 2023.
Dangut stressed that the Council would continue to sanction all cases of examination malpractice, noting that schools, supervisors, teachers, and candidates involved in such practices were undermining the educational system.