In what is obviously its best outcome over the most recent 10 years, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) on Monday in Lagos reported a 59.22 percent pass rate in the 2017 May/June West African Senior School Examinations (WASSCE).
This outcome is a colossal jump from the poorest consequence of 2008 record of 13.76 pass rate in the quantity of hopefuls with go in five subjects including English Language and Mathematics and three different subjects.
In perspective of this, the 2017 outcome may flag an entire takeoff from the period of mass disappointment that describes the execution of Nigerian hopefuls in the provincial examination.
Olu Adenipekun, Head of the National Office (HNO), tending to newsmen at the WAEC office in Yaba Lagos said a sum of 923,486 competitors speaking to 59.22 percent got least of credits in five subjects or more, including English Language and Mathematics.
As per him, there is a slight change in the execution of competitors that sat for the examination as rate of applicants in this class in WASSCE for 2015 and 2016 were 38.68 percent and 52.97 percent, individually.
A glance at the outcome over the most recent 10 years demonstrated that applicants that sat for the examination in the vicinity of 2007 and 2011 had a pass rate of 25.54, 13.76, 25.99, 24.98, and 30.70 percent, separately.
In what gave off an impression of being the time of checked change by applicants from Nigeria, the periods from 2012 recorded slight enhanced and took a jump in 2016.
The consequences of the examination from 2012 to 2015 demonstrated that the quantity of applicants that composed the terminal examination as an essential for induction into tertiary training and scored five credits in five subjects including English Language, Mathematics and three different subjects had pass rates of 38.81, 31.28 and 38.68 rates, individually.
In any case, it recorded an unmistakable break from the past as the 2016 eating routine recorded a total jump with 878,040 of the 1,552,758 understudies who sat for the May/June exams. Competitors speaking to 52.97 percent acquired credits in five subjects or more, including English dialect and Mathematics.
Talking further on the 2017 outcome he said a sum of 1,567,016 applicants enlisted for the examination out of which 1,550,162 competitors sat for the examination, including that out of the aggregate number of hopefuls that sat for the examination 1,471,151 which speak to 94.36 percent have their outcomes completely prepared and discharged.
Olanipekun included that 95,734 applicants speaking to 5.64 percent had a couple of their subjects as yet being prepared because of mistakes traceable to the competitors throughout enrollment or composing the examination.
In any case, he said the consequences of 214,952 competitors speaking to 13.79 percent are as yet being withheld regarding different revealed instances of examination misbehaviors.
He included that the cases are being researched and reports of the examinations will be introduced to the fitting board of trustees of the chamber at the appointed time for thought, focusing on that the council's choice will be conveyed to the influenced competitors through their schools.
He additionally said with the update of the chamber's ICT offices, especially, the as of late charged HP Converged System, a private cloud, the limit of the Council's ICT has now been upgraded.
"With the dynamic audit of our procedures and strategies sponsored with the assurance of the whole workforce of the committee in Nigeria to serve the Nigerian tyke better and speedier, the early arrival of the consequences of the WASSCE for school testament 2017 has been made conceivable.
Talking further on the breakdown of the outcomes, Olanipekun said 1,357,193 hopefuls speaking to 87.05 percent acquired credits or more in four subjects, while 1,243,772 applicants speaking to 79.77 percent got credits or more in five subjects and 1,084,214 competitors speaking to 69.54 percent got credits or more in six subjects.
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