The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the 2021 Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) result and noted that there was an improvement in the number of candidates who got credits in five subjects including Mathematics and English Language.
The head of the Nigeria National Office of the examination body,
Patrick Areghan, disclosed this in a press statement issued on Monday.
While giving a breakdown of the examination and the result, he
explained that 1,560,261 candidates sat for the exercise in five countries
– The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone.
A further breakdown of the result showed that 1,398,370 candidates who
make up 89.62%, had credits and above in at least five (5) subjects (i.e
with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics.
According to him, 1,274,784 persons, representing 81.7%, had credits
and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English
Language and Mathematics.
He also noted that the examination which spanned seven weeks was
affected by several security challenges including the sit-at-home order in
the South East, banditry, kidnapping, insurgency, in the north and other
parts of Nigeria.
