WAEC Excludes Candidates and Schools from Exams Due to Malpractice

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire results of some candidates found guilty of examination malpractices during three of its examinations between 2020 and 2021, including the most recent school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) and the two previous editions for private candidates.
It has also barred some candidates from taking any of its examinations for two years and cancelled some subjects in the results of others, as well as decertifying some schools as examination centers indefinitely or for a set period of time.
Some supervisors and invigilators will also be sanctioned for their heinous roles in the administration of the various exams.

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The Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of WAEC, which is the body’s highest decision-making organ on examination-related matters, made these decisions at its 72nd meeting in Lagos recently.

It remained silent, however, on the exact number of people or schools involved.

All of the committee’s resolutions, including informing all affected candidates, schools, supervisors, and invigilators, would be implemented without delay, according to a communiqué issued by the council’s Public Affairs Department at the end of the meeting and signed by the acting head of the department, Mrs Moyosola Adeyegbe.

The committee, which also said the withheld results of candidates, who had been exonerated of wrongdoings would be released immediately, further explained that it would act on some special cases and appeals for clemency by some candidates of its 2021 WASSCE who are ready for restitution. The committee also noted that it considered the general résumé of the Chief Examiners reports on all the mentioned examinations and had observed that the standards of the question papers and that of the marking guidelines were all according to syllabus and world best practices. The committee, however, expressed satisfaction over the results of the candidates who sat the last school-based examination with over 80 per cent of them performing well and congratulated the WAEC’s management and other stakeholders on the feat.