By LOVETH AZODO, Lagos
The West African Examination Council has announced that the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, 2022 will commence between the 16th of May and 23rd of June, 2022.
The Head National Office, Patrick Areghan made the announcement Today during a press briefing in Lagos.
He said that the examination will span a period of six (06) weeks. The revert to May/June period for the conduct of the examination should be celebrated
According to him, a total of One Million, Six Hundred and Seven Thousand, Nine Hundred and Eighty Five (1,607,985) candidates from Twenty Thousand, Two Hundred and Twenty One, (20,221) schools have registered for the examination.
He said “Out of this number, Eight Hundred Thousand and Fifty-Five (800,055) are males, comprising (49.76%) while Eight Hundred Thousand, Seven Hundred and Twenty Four (800,724) are females, comprising (50.24%) of the total candidature. Candidates would be examined in 76 subjects, made up of 197 papers. About 30,000 practicing senior teachers, nominated by various Ministries of Education, would be participating in the examination as supervisors.”
On the NIN as a requirement component, he explained that Even though NIN was made a component of the registration process, it was not a compulsory requirement in order not to disqualify many candidates.
“Even after the registration exercise, candidates were, and are still being, allowed to submit their NIN for upload. I, therefore, want to make it categorically clear that no candidate was denied registration as a result of non-submission of NIN,” he said.
Speaking on insecurity he assured that the council is liaising with the Inspector General of Police and the various State governments to provide security in order to ensure that the
Areghan warned that the penalties for involvement in any form of examination malpractice will be meted out to erring candidates, supervisors, schools, etc, as would be approved by the Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC), which is the highest decision-making organ of the Council that sits on examination matters in Nigeria.
He urged parents to therefore, on this note that parents and guardians must admonish their wards to study hard and desist from engaging in any form of examination malpractice.
Ha assured that the results of candidates sitting the examination will be released 45 days after the conduct of the last paper, while the certificates will be printed and issued to schools in less than Ninety (90) days after the release of results.
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