Female Candidates Outnumbered Males As WAEC Releases 1,476,565 WASSCE 2023 Results

 By LOVETH AZODO, Lagos

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has disclosed that the number of female candidates outnumbered the male candidates who sat for its 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) as it released 1,476,565 results.
 
OPTIMUM TIMES reports that the statistics indicates a decreasing number of males going to schools up to passing out at the WASSCE level.

The council released a total of 1,476,565 results, representing 91.5% candidates that sat for the exam while others were withheld.
 
The Head of Nigeria National Office (HNO) WAEC, Patrick E. Areghan who announced the results Monday at the council’s office in Lagos, said that out of the 1,613,733 candidates who sat for the examination, 794,280 were males while 819,453 were females, representing 49.22% and 50.78%, respectively.
 
Giving further analysis of the statistics of the performance of candidates in the examination, Areghan revealed that the out of the 1,613,733 candidates that sat the examination, One Million, Three Hundred and Sixty-One Thousand, Six Hundred and Eight (1,361,608) candidates, representing 84.38%, obtained credits and above in a minimum of any five (5) subjects (i.e with or without English Language and/ or Mathematics; while One Million, Two Hundred and Eighty-Seven, Nine Hundred and Twenty(1,287,920) candidates, representing 79.81%, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

Areghan assured that the candidates digital certificates are ready, he urged candidates with no pending issues can now access their digital certificate as they check their results. 
 
“Digital certificates of candidates who sat for the WASSCE for School Candidates, 2023 and have no pending issues, by way of unresolved queries or hanging cases of examination malpractice, are ready on the Digital certificate platform!  Printing of the physical (hard copy) certificates will commence 90 days from today.  This is an innovation that will make admission processes seamless, and with a high level of mobility.”
 
“Candidates who have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Council can access their results on the Council’s results website: www.waecdirect.org. After accessing their results, candidates can visit www.waec.org to confirm, share and download digital copies of their certificates!  Copies of the Result Listing will be sent to schools shortly.  I need to restate that the results of candidates sponsored by States indebted to the Council will not be released now until they pay up.  We appeal to them to do so to enable the affected schools/candidates to access their results,” he said.