The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), has released the 2021 candidates’ result with over a million having credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

A total of 1,560,261 million candidates sat for the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

About 1,274,784 million (81.7%) candidates had credits and above in a minimum of 5 subjects including English Language and Mathematics.

1,398,370 million candidates, representing 89.62%, obtained credit and above in a minimum of any five subjects (i.e with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics).

Announcing the release of the WASSCE result on Monday, November 22, the Head, Nigeria National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, said;

“Out of the total number of candidates that sat the examination in Nigeria, 1,256,990 million candidates, representing 80.56% have their results fully processed and released while 303,271 candidates, representing 19.44 per cent have a few of their subjects still being processed due to some issues being resolved.”

“The results of 170,146 candidates, representing 10.9 per cent of the total number of candidates that sat the examination, are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.

“The increasing use of cell phones in the examination hall and organised cheating in some schools are other big concerns. All the cases are being investigated and reports of the investigations will be presented to the appropriate committee of the Council for determination in due course,” he said.

“The examination ended on October 8, 2021 and today, Monday, November 22, 2021; 45 days after the conduct of the last paper, we are releasing the result”.