The West African Examinations Councils has said that its National Examination Council will take a decision on the cases of students, who wrote this year’s May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, but whose results have been withheld by the council, in
November.
This is sequel to the series of complaints by candidates, who sat for the 2017 May/June SSCE in different secondary schools across the country.
Our correspondent gathered that many of the students, who wrote the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination had been eagerly awaiting the release of the 2017 SSCE results to enable them to process their admission into tertiary
institutions.
WAEC had earlier said that 95,734 candidates, representing 5.64 per cent, had a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to the candidates in the course of registration or while writing the examination.
The examination body said such errors were being corrected by the Council to enable the affected candidates get their results fully processed and released, subsequently.
WAEC, however, said that its reasons for withholding the candidates’ examination results were beyond their involvement in examination malpractices as many of them also failed to adhere to specific rules and regulations during the conduct of the examination.
The examination body added that after its findings, it would release the withheld results of the candidates from schools that didn’t indulge in malpractices after the NEC meeting.
It also said that the candidates from other schools found wanting would be punished.
“As regards withholding of results for examination malpractices, no innocent candidate or school/centre will be punished.
Apart from examination malpractices, results are withheld when candidates violate the rules and regulations guiding the conduct of our examination such as when a candidate assaults an examination official; is found with a mobile phone/electronic device; or caused a disorder in the exam hall, etc,” WAEC
said.
