By Amah
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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), on Monday, August 12, officially released the results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, 2024.
The examination body has confirmed this in a post on its official X account.
“The West African Examinations Council is pleased to inform Candidates who sat WASSCE for School Candidates, 2024 that the result has officially been released today, Monday, August 12, 2024,” the post read.
Amos Dangut, WAEC’s Head of Nigeria Organisation, also confirmed the release of the results during a press briefing on Monday.
According to him, the results of 1,685,889 candidates were released. This accounted for 93.9% of the entire results.
Furthermore, he explained that although insecurity affected the conduct of the examination in different areas of the country, 1,805, 216 candidates registered for the WASSCE.
Amos Dangut said: “WAEC is releasing its results today as out of 1,805, 216 that entered for exam, 1,332, 089 candidates have credits in five subjects including any subjects with either Mathematics or English language and 1,301, 949 candidates got credits in five subjects including Mathematics and English language accounting for 72.9% of total candidates.
“This is a 7.6% decrease in examination performance compared to last year of 2023 WASSCE. Also 215, 267 results were withheld due to examination malpractice by the candidates. This accounts for 11.92% of the total number of candidates who wrote the examination.”
How to check your results
Log on to https://waecdirect.org and follow the steps below.
Enter your 10-digit WAEC Examination Number.
(This is your 7-Digit centre number followed by your 3-digit candidate number eg. 4123456789).
For examination year < 1999, enter your 8-digit WAEC Examination Number.
(This is your 5-Digit centre number followed by your 3-digit candidate number eg. 19865001)
Enter the 4 digits of your Examination Year eg. 2002
Select the Type of Examination
Enter the e-PIN Voucher Number
Enter the Personal Identification Number (PIN) on your e-PIN
Click Submit and wait for the results window to come up.
