WAEC withholds 28,768 over exam malpractices as it releases Nov/Dec results
Olaoluwa Folalu
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Thursday announced it has withheld 28,768 results of candidates who sat for the 2015 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) over examination malpractice.
Mr Olutise Adenipeku, Head of National Office of WAEC, made this disclosure at a news conference in Lagos.
According to him, the figure represents 12.13 per cent of 237,154 candidates that sat for the examination and that the results were being withheld for further investigations.
Adenipekun added that reports of the investigations would be presented to the Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the council for consideration.
235,542 candidates, representing 99.23 per cent, he said had their results fully processed and released, while 1,612 candidates representing 0.68 per cent, have 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.
The WAEC boss stated further that 79,490, representing 33.51 per cent of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination, obtained six credits and above, while 113,573 had five credits.
He revealed further that 146,253 candidates obtained credits and above in four subjects, while 175,718 others got credits and above in three subjects, while a total of 200,304 candidates obtained credits and above in two subjects.
He said that the council had deployed another cutting edge technology to continue to protect the integrity of its examinations and ”remain many steps ahead of perpetrators of examination malpractice”.
Adenipekun said that the deployment of a technology known as “CredenceOne’’ was introduced during the 2015 WASSCE November/December diet of the council’s examination.
“The technology is an intersection mobile communications biometric device.
“It is a mobile biometric identification and verification system built on the Android Operating System.
“Using CredenceOne is as simple as using your mobile phone. It is used to initiate and complete the biometric verification of candidates’ fingerprints.
“The device is programmed to compare the scanned fingerprint templates captured during registration and display the candidates’ details to check impersonation”, he said.
He added that the system also took the candidates’ attendance and automatically sent the records online to the remote central server for reporting.
“With this innovation, we can boldly say that WAEC, Nigeria now has its biometric fingerprint identification and verification system on a mobile device”, he said.
Adenipekun advised candidates who sat for the examination to check the details of their results on the council’s results website, www.waecdirect.org, within 24 hours
