Over 70 percent of WACE candidates “Fail”




The candidates who sat for the 2014 November/December 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) failed to make five credits, Mathematics and English language inclusive, this was announced yesterday.

Charles Eguridu Head of the National Office of the Council  who made the announcement of the result at a news conference in  Lagos said of the 241,161 candidates that wrote the exams in 2014, only 72,522 scored five credits with mathematics and English language, thus the pass rate of 29.27 percent.

28,817 results held for malpractice reasons by the exams body said Mr Eguridu

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