{"id":34,"date":"2018-03-14T09:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:07:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:07:59","slug":"83-of-candidates-fail-2018-wassce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"83% of candidates fail 2018 WASSCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">The West African Examination Council has announced the results of the First Series of the new diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates in the country.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Announcing the results at the Lagos headquarters of the council in Yaba on Tuesday, the Head of the Nigeria Office, Mr. Isaac Adenipekun, said out of the 11,307 candidates that sat for the examination between January 29 and February 12, 2018, 1,937 candidates, representing 17.13 per cent, obtained credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">He noted that 6,375 others obtained credits and above in three subjects, while 4,762 candidates obtained credits and above in four subjects.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">Mr. Adenipekun also said that 3,263 candidates obtained credits and above in five subjects, while 2,010 others obtained credits and above in six subjects.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">\u201cA total 1,937 candidates, representing 17.13 per cent, obtained the minimum of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">\u201cThe percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE in 2017 was 26.01 per cent.<\/div>\n<div style=\"line-height: 150%;\">\u201cFrom the statistics of performance, it is safe to say that candidates performance is not satisfactory, compared to what obtained in the same diet for private candidates in 2016 and 2017.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The West African Examination Council has announced the results of the First Series of the new diet of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates in the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}