Details of the May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate
Examination have emerged with states in the South-Eastern part of the
country leading in the performance chart of candidates who obtained
credits in at least five subjects, including English Language and
Mathematics.
Anambra State topped the chart with 34, 084 of its 51, 718 candidates.
Abia State occupies the second position with 32, 947 of its 56, 299
candidates getting credit passes in five subjects and above, including
English Language and Mathematics.
Conversely, 13 of the 19 states from the North occupy the rear
positions, with only 743 of the 15, 310 candidates from Yobe State
obtaining the same result in the examination.
With 146, 564 candidates, Lagos State is placed in the seventh
position, while Osun and Oyo states occupied the 22nd and the 24th
positions respectively.
From Lagos schools, 67, 219 candidates, comprising 34,885 females and
32, 334 males, obtained credit passes in five subjects and above,
including English Language and Mathematics.
The statistics, The PUNCH findings reveal, represents the outcome of
the provisional results released by West African Examination Council.
The consolidated results will be out after the National Examinations
Committee of the council's meeting later in November, the WAEC's Head
of Public Relations, Mr. Yusuf Ari, told our correspondent on
Wednesday.
One million six hundred and ninety-two thousand, three hundred and
seventy-five candidates sat for the examination in which 1,163,010 of
them failed to obtain the basic entry requirement for university
admission.
To secure university admission in the country, a candidate must obtain
credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and
Mathematics.
The Head, National Office of WAEC, Mr. Charles Eguridu, announced the
release of the results, reported to be the worst in the last three
years in Lagos, on August 11.
This year, 31.29 per cent of the candidates obtained the benchmark for
university admission while in 2012 and 2013; the statistics was pegged
at 38.81 and 36.57 per cent respectively.
A breakdown of the 2014 results shows that Edo, Bayelsa and Rivers
states occupy the third, fourth and fifth positions, while Enugu, Imo
and Delta states are in the sixth, eighth and ninth positions.
Kaduna State with 100, 362 candidates came 10th. Thirty-six thousand,
five hundred and fourteen of its candidates, comprising 20, 484 males
and 16,030 females obtained the university admission benchmark.
In the 11th, 12th 13th and 14th positions are Ebonyi, Ekiti, Ondo and
Akwa Ibom states. While 9,170 of the 25, 438 candidates got the basic
university requirements in Ebonyi; 7, 530 of the 22, 278 candidates
from Ekiti also obtained the same basic admission prerequisite.
Of the 36, 797 candidates, who sat for the examination in Ondo State,
12, 572, comprising 6, 439 males and 6,133 females, obtained the
university admission requirement.
Fifty-nine thousand, one hundred and forty candidates sat for the
examination in Akwa Ibom State with 18,472 of them obtaining credit
passes in five subjects and above, including English Language and
Mathematics.
The Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Kwara, Kano and Ogun states
placed 15th, 16th 17th and 18th in that order. While Abuja had 5, 568
of the 18, 153 candidates getting the basic university benchmark; 9,
999 from Kwara State posted the equivalent result.
From Kano schools, 18, 603 of their 66, 079 candidates obtained the
requirement, while 18, 974 of the 70, 474 of candidates from Ogun
schools got credit passes in five subjects and above, including
English Language and Mathematics.
Benue, Kogi and Cross River states occupied the 19th, 20th, 21st and
23rd positions.
The last 13 states in the performance chart are Nassarawa (25th),
Niger (26th), Taraba (27th), Borno (28th), Katsina (29th), Adamawa
(30th) and Jigawa at the 31st position.
The rest are Sokoto (32nd), Zamfara (33rd), Kebbi (34th), Gombe
(35th), Bauchi (36th) and Yobe at the 37th position.
The findings also showed that 149, 178 of the 757, 811 candidates from
19 states and FCT obtained credits in five subjects and above,
including English Language and Mathematics in the examination.
Similarly, 380,301 of the 934,564 candidates that sat for the
examination from the Southern part of the country obtained credit
passes in five subjects and above, including English Language and
Mathematics.
Of 529, 479 candidates that obtained the basic university admission
benchmark in the examination, 268, 047 of them are males, while
261,432 others are females.
PUNCH
