RELEASE OF PROVISIONAL RESULTS FOR THE MAY/JUNE 2015
WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE)
The West African Examinations Council wishes to inform its numerous publics that the provisional results of candidates who took the May/June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) are ready and would be released after this Press Conference. The Council will despatch the results to the schools and candidates are advised to contact their heads of school for their results.
Meanwhile, the Council will host the results online and candidates, who so desire, may access their results at the Council’s website.
The Council wishes to use this opportunity to enjoin members of the public to disregard various ‘Whatsapp’ messages being circulated about the results and a ‘so-called’ ranking of schools. The information contained in these messages is false and does not emanate from the Council. WAEC does not rank schools and has not issued any information in that regard.
STATISTICS
A total of 268,812 candidates took the examination. This figure is 11% higher than the 2014 candidature of 242,162. Out of the 2015 candidature of 268,812, 139,868 (52.03%) were males and 128,944 (47.97%) females. The examination was conducted for 810 participating schools. A total of 1,015 (0.38%) of the candidates who registered were absent from the examination.
The performance of the candidates in regard to the four core subjects are as below:
· English Language: 134,240 (50.29%) obtained A1-C6, 81,900 (30.68%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 50,774 (19.02%) had F9;
· Mathematics: 66,710 (25.04%) obtained A1-C6, 79,269 obtained (29.75%) D7-E8 and 120,381 (45.19%) had F9;
· Integrated Science: 62,855 (23.63%) obtained A1-C6, 104,306 (39.19%) obtained D7-E8 and 98,933 (37.17%) had F9;
· Social Studies: 138,007 (51.84%) obtained A1-C6, 67,094 (25.20%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 61,086 (22.94%) had F9.
MALPRACTICE
Following the conclusion of investigations into cases of examination malpractice detected during the conduct of the examination:
· 1,859 candidates had their subject results cancelled;
· 453 candidates had their entire results cancelled;
· 8 (eight) candidates had their entire results cancelled and have been barred from taking any of the Council’s examinations for 2 (two) years.
Additionally, the entire results of candidates presented by 185 schools have been withheld whilst investigations into alleged examination irregularities are being conducted. This number includes 119 schools which were involved in mass cheating in the objective tests and were identified with the aid of the new anti-malpractice software (Item Differentia Profile). This software has been introduced to assist the Council to detect cheating in objective tests which hitherto, went largely unnoticed.
The number of malpractice cases recorded in our examinations has led to the introduction of interventions such as:
· The Item Differentia Profile as stated earlier
· The biometric registration of candidates
· Use of metal detectors
· Swapping of supervisors
· Use of G-Type answer booklets
· Revision of examination rules among others.
Also, the Council in March this year, held a Stakeholders’ Dialogue to address the trends in examination malpractice.
The withheld results of candidates will be cancelled if found culpable or released if otherwise.
CONCLUSION
The Council wishes to express its deepest appreciation to all stakeholders especially the Ministry of Education, Ghana Education Service, Supervisors, Invigilators, the Ghana Police Service, Examiners and all who in various ways helped in the successful conduct of the examination and the timeous release of results.
HEAD OF NATIONAL OFFICE