The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.

This was disclosed in a press statement signed by Patrick E. Areghan,  FCGP Head of the Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Monday.

Recall that the examination, which was earlier scheduled to commence on 6th April, 2020 held on 17th August, 2020 and ended on 12th September, 2020 due to the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 outbreak nationwide.

According to Areghan, over a million students registered for the examination from over 19,000 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria and a total of 11, 295 students did not take part in the exams.

He further revealed that only 94.69 per cent of the number of students who sat for exams can access their full results while the remaining 5.31% will have to wait to access their full results due to some errors on a few of their subjects which are being processed.

The statement also added that 86.99% represented by 1.03m candidates out of those that sat for the examination obtained credits and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

Candidates will be able to access their results on the Council’s results website (www.waecdirect.org.) while The certificates of candidates whose results have been fully processed and released will be ready in 90 days time, starting from today, Monday, November 2, 2020, according to Areghan.

The statement partly read: “A total of One Million Five Hundred and Forty-Nine Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty (1,549,740) candidates registered for the examination from Nineteen Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-Nine (19,129) recognised secondary schools in Nigeria. Of the number that registered for the examination, One Million Five Hundred and Thirty-Eight Thousand Four Hundred and Forty-Five (1,538,445) candidates sat the examination.”

“Out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, One Million Four Hundred and Fifty-Six Thousand Seven Hundred and Twenty-Seven (1,456,727) candidates, representing 94.69% have their results fully processed and released while Eighty-One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighteen (81,718) candidates, representing 5.31% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some errors on the part of the candidates. Efforts are, however, being made to speedily complete the processing to enable all the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released, subsequently.”

“The analysis of the statistics of the performance of candidates in the examination shows that out of the One Million Five Hundred and Thirty-Eight Thousand Four Hundred and Forty-Five (1,538,445) candidates that sat the examination: 

“One Million Three Hundred and Thirty-Eight Thousand Three Hundred and Forty-Eight (1,338,348) candidates, representing 86.99%, obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five (5) subjects (i.e with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics;

“One Million Three Thousand Six Hundred and Sixty Eight (1,003,668) candidates, representing 65.24%, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

“Of this number, Four Hundred and Ninety-Seven Thousand One Hundred and Thirty-Nine (497,139) i. e. 49.53% were male candidates, while Five Hundred and Six Thousand Five Hundred and Twenty-Nine (506,529) i.e. 50.47% were female candidates. The percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE for School Candidates, 2019, that is, those who obtained credit and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, was 64.18%. Thus, there is a marginal 1.06% improvement in performance in this regard.”

Areghanalso added that “the results are being uploaded on the results website. Candidates who sat the examination and who have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Council can access their performance on the Council’s results website: www.waecdirect.org.

“The Result Checker PIN and Serial Number required by candidates to check their results online are contained on the Candidate’s Smart Identity Card used during the conduct of the examination. Certificates of candidates whose results have been fully processed and released will be ready within the next 90 days, counting from today.”