The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released provisional results of candidates who sat for the 2017 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Results will soon be dispatched to the schools and candidates are advised to contact their heads of school for their results, a statement signed and issued by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Head of Public Affairs at WAEC has said.
The results have also been posted online and candidates may choose to access their results at the Council's website.
Meanwhile, the council has alerted members of the public especially candidates to be aware of impostors who promise to change examination results for a fee.
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It indicated that candidates are to note that all WAEC results are well secured and can be authenticated and that persons with forged results will be exposed.
Statistics
A total of 289,210 candidates entered for the examination this year, with 147,591 (51 %) being males and 141,619 (49 %) being females.
The examination was conducted for 916 participating schools.
A total of 1,732 {0.60%) of the candidates who registered were absent from the examination.
Below are how the candidates performed in regard to the four core subjects:
English Language: 155,077 {54.06%) obtained A1-C6; 73,409 (25.59%) obtained D7-E8 while 58,351 (20.35%) had F9;
. Mathematics (Core): 122,450 (42.73%) obtained A1-C6; 106,024 (37%) obtained D7-E8 while 58,070 (20.27%) had F9;• Integrated Science: 125,204 (43.66%) obtained A1-C6; 84,851 (29.59%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 76,693 (26.75%) had F9;• Social Studies: 149,806 (52.25%) obtained A1-C6; 69,795 (24.35%) obtained D7-E8 whilst 67,078 (23.40%) had F9.
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This year's provisional results showed marginal increase in English and Maths scores.
The performance at A1-C6 in Mathematics showed an improvement over that of 2016 (32.83% to 42.73%).
English Language also made some improvement (53.19% to 54.06%).
However, Integrated Science dropped a little from the 2016 performance (48.48% to 43.66%).
Meanwhile, the entire results of candidates from 185 schools have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into allegations of examination malpractice.
This includes results of candidates from 31 schools who were detected by the Item Differentia Profile (IDP) software to have cheated in objective tests.