WAEC releases 91.38% of May/June examination results

This afternoon, the WAEC released the results of 1,543,683 candidates who sat for its May/June 2013 Secondary School Certificate Examination.

According to reports, this represents 91.38 per cent of 1,689,188 candidates, who registered for the examination,

The Head of National Office (HNO) of WAEC, Dr Charles Eguridu, announced the results on Wednesday when he addressed a news conference in Lagos.

Eguridu said 889,636 candidates obtained six credits and above, while 1,074,065 others obtained five credits and above.

According to him, the results of 145,505 others, representing 8.62 per cent, were being processed due to some errors.

“These errors are traceable to the candidates as well as their schools in the course of registration or writing the examination.’’

The HNO explained that such errors were being corrected by the council to enable the affected candidates to get their results fully processed and released subsequently.