WAEC releases Nov/Dec 2014 results, says 70% of students failed

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released the November/December 2014 WASCE result.
The body said out of the 246,853 candidates who sat for the exams, only 72,522 candidates, representing 29.37 per cent, obtained credits in five subjects, including Mathematics and English Language.
This connotes that over 70.63 per cent of candidates failed.
Announcing the results in Lagos on Thursday, the Head of the Nigeria National Office, the West African Examinations Council, Mr. Charles Eguridu, said there was a marked reduction in examination malpractices.
He said the results which represented 11.67 of the number of candidates who wrote the examination, were withheld for “various cases of malpractices.”
The examination agency had withheld 38,260 results, equivalent of 12.88 per cent of the total number of candidates who sat for the examination in 2013 for similar reasons.
He said, “Of the total number of candidates that sat for the examination, 75,313 candidates (30.5 per cent) obtained credits and above in six subjects; 110,346 candidates (44. 7 per cent) obtained credits and above in five.
“In addition, 145,036 candidates, representing 58.75 per cent, obtained credits and above in four subjects while 177.177 candidates, representing 71.77 per cent, obtained credits and above in three subjects. A total of 205,090 candidates (83.08) obtained credits and above in two subjects,” he presented.
The total number of candidates that sat for the examination this year is 61,364 short of the 308,217 candidates that wrote it last year – a decline of about 20 per cent.