132 Students Have Their WAEC Results Canceled

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The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire results of 132 candidates who wrote this year?s West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

In addition, the council cancelled various subject results of 5,833 other candidates, who were alleged to have engaged in one form of malpractice or another.

The affected students were from 77 senior high schools whose results were withheld by the council when the 2013 WASSCE results were released last month.

A Principal Public Affairs Officer of WAEC, Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, who made this known to the Daily Graphic on Thursday, said results that were without any problem, with regard to malpractices, had been released to the candidates.

According to her, the results of the 80 schools that were withheld by the council were closely scrutinised after which, action was taken.

?We have worked on the entire school results that we withheld when we released the results about a month ago. We scrutinised the scripts and have taken action against candidates who were found to have engaged in malpractices,? she said.

Mrs Teye-Cudjoe said with action taken, a few results were still pending, although she could not put a finger on how many were still being held, adding that WAEC was working hard on them because the future of candidates were at stake.

Asked what accounted for the delay in releasing results apart from malpractices, she said, results were sometimes delayed because of problems with the continuous assessment records of candidates.

?Sometimes we have problem with the continuous assessment scores that have been forwarded by the schools. They are supposed to present these things on CDs, and sometimes when you open the CDs the information is corrupted so you have to go back to the schools to get the information,? she said.

She, therefore, dismissed rumours that some results were delayed because the council did not complete marking of the scripts on time.

During the release of provisional results of the May/June WASSCE, WAEC said it had withheld the results of about 77 schools which took part in the May/June WASSCE, pending the conclusion of investigations.

This year?s WASSCE had a total of 409,759 candidates, the highest number of candidates ever presented for an examination in the country.

The candidates comprised the two groups of final-year senior high school candidates; the last batch of the four-year SHS system and the first batch of the three-year system.Daily Graphic

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  1. please am not owing the school and never caught with any foreign material in the hall and i was loyal but my 2017 wassce results are on pending

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