Posted on: 07:28 Thu, 17 Dec 2015



The West African Examination
Council (WAEC), has released the
long awaited November/December
2015 General Certificate
Examination (GCE) result.

Announcing the release of the results
at a news conference in Lagos, the
Head, National Office of the Council,
Mr. Isaac Adenipekun, said of the
total 237,154 candidates who sat for
the examinations, 235,542
candidates, representing 99.32%
have their results fully processed and
released.

He said 1,612 candidates,
representing 0.68%, have a few of
their subjects still being processed
due to some errors, traceable mainly
to the candidates in the course of
registration or writing the
examination. Such errors are being
corrected by the Council to enable
the affected candidates have their
results.

On the performance of candidates,
Mr. Adenipekun said that 79,490
candidates, representing 33.51%
obtained 6 credits and above;
113,573 candidates, representing
47.88% obtained 5 credits.

In addition, 146,253 candidates,
representing 61.67% obtained
credits and above in 4 subjects,
while 175,718 candidates,
representing 74.09% obtained
credits and above in 3 subjects. A
total of 200,304 candidates (84.46%)
obtained credits and above in 2
subjects.

The new WAEC HNO, who is
announcing his first result,
commended all the supervisors,
invigilators, custodians, security
agencies and other ad-hoc personnel
for their commitment and dedication
to duty during the conduct of the
examination.

He added that the results have been
uploaded online and can be accessed
on the WAEC result checking website
24hrs from the time of this
publication.