453 WASSCE results cancelled

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has cancelled the entire results of 453 students who took part in the 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

The entire results of candidates from 185 schools have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations.

1,859 students also had their subject results cancelled while eight candidates, who had their entire results cancelled, have been barred from taking any of WAEC’s exams for two years.

The National Head of WAEC Ghana, Very Reverend Samuel Ollenu made these known at a press conference in Accra to announce the release of the results written in May/June this year.

He said, “Following the conclusion of investigations of cases of examination malpractices detected during the conduct of the examination, 1,859 candidates had their subject results canceled and 453 candidates had their entire results cancelled.”

He added that the malpractices recorded were exposed by the innovative measures introduced.

“Additionally, the entire results of candidates presented by 185 schools have been withheld while investigations into alleged examination irregularities are being conducted. This number includes 119 schools which were involved in mass cheating the objective test and were identified with the aid of the new anti-malpractice software which were call item deferential profile,” he stated.

The provisional results of the 2015 WASSCE can, however, be accessed by candidates online while the hard copies have been dispatched to the various schools.

A total of 268,812 students from 810 schools sat the examinations. But 1,015 of them were absent.