BREAKING: WAEC Releases 2024 WASSCE Results, Explains How to Check

• WAEC has finally released the 2024 results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)
• The 2024 WASSCE was held for a period of seven weeks and six days spanning April 30 to June 24
• Legit.ng reports that WAEC is Africa's foremost examination body which conducts examinations for youths in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and the Gambia

Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has over 9 years of experience covering education in Nigeria and worldwide.

Yaba, Lagos state - The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for 2024.

The statement was shared on WAEC's official X (formerly Twitter) handle on Monday, August 12, 2024.

WAEC said to access the result, WASSCE candidates can log on to https://waecdirect.org.

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Legit.ng understands that WAEC registered 1,814,344 candidates for the 2024 WASSCE for school candidates.

How to check WAEC's WASSCE result 2024

With a phone or laptop, go to log on to https://waecdirect.org.

WAEC withholds results of 215,267 candidates

Meanwhile, out of the total number of candidates that sat the exam in Nigeria, 1,685,889 candidates (93.39 percent) have all their papers processed and released while 119,327 candidates (representing 6.61 percent) have some subjects still being processed.

Amos Josiah Dangut, head of WAEC Nigeria, said the results of 215,267 candidates (representing 11.92 percent of the total) are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.

This, the council said, amounts to a 4.37 percent decrease from the 16.29 percent recorded in the 2023 WASSCE for school candidates.

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Brilliant lady recalls outstanding WASSCE result

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a Nigerian lady on X who graduated from secondary school in 2020, @Chizaram, said she "had the best WAEC result" during the year she sat the WASSCE.

@Chizaram disclosed that apart from obtaining an outstanding WASSCE result, she emerged as the second highest-scoring candidate in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) among her peers at the Federal Government Girls’ College Owerri, Imo state.

Source: Legit.ng