WAEC To Reintroduce Electronic Marking After 2017 WASSCE

The West African Examination Council International Office (WIO) with its head office in Lagos has revealed
that the proposed reintroduction of the electronic marking system has been approved and will be implemented at the end of the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Speaking to newsmen on Monday 11th September 2017, Adelowo Maliki, the head of the WIO office stated the reasons why electronic marking will return after a one year hiatus.

“We started this electronic marking in 2014 through to 2015, only for us to suspend it in 2016, due to high costs as regards the high exchange rate.

“But now, we are set to bring it back as we have gotten all necessary approvals from the council’s committee meetings and the council itself.

This (high costs as regards the exchange rate) led to our trying to develop our own in-house and by the grace of God, the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates would be marked electronically.

When quizzed further on whether the electronic marking system will be employed for all subjects, Mr Maliki said,

'We will not be marking all the subjects through this mode, just some selected ones'.

“When we do some papers and discover we are able to absorb the costs, we will increase and with time, maybe as we are doing it and getting results, government may also want to invest in and be part of it,’’ he said.

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Tests reliability will be enhanced by this latest development and will definitely be an impressive improvement to the past marking system which was done with some foreign partners based in the United Kingdom.


“Here, you can be sure that if two people mark the same paper, they will arrive at the same scoring.

“So it will increase test reliability, which means that even for different people, there will be little or no deviation from what they awarded because this one is electronically done and if you are not doing it according to laid down rules, it shuts you off automatically on its own.

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OFFICIAL : MAY/JUNE 2017 WAEC RESULTS HAS BEEN RELEASED. CHECK YOURS!

Yes! 2017 WAEC Results Are Out.
Candidates who sat for the May/June 2017 WAEC exams can now check their results online via waecdirect.org

The West African Exam Supremo via it's official twitter handle @waecnigeria on Monday July 17 announced that results have been released while also presenting some facts about this year's exam which can be seen below.

• 1,567,016 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 1,559,162 candidates sat the examination.

• 214,952 candidates' results, representing 13.79% are being withheld in connection with various reported cases of exam malpractice.

• 923,486 candidates, representing 59.22%, obtained minimum of credits in 5 subjects & above, including English Language & Mathematics.

• 1,084,214 candidates, representing 69.54% obtained credits and above in six (6) subjects.

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• Out of the total no. of candidates that sat the exam, 1,471,151, rep. 94.36% have their results fully processed & released.

• 95,734 candidates, rep. 5.64% have a few of their subjects still being processed due to errors traceable to the candidates.

• Such errors are being corrected & the results will be fully processed and released subsequently.

It was not however until 3:00 pm on Tuesday that the exam body confirmed that candidates can now check their results with another tweet

Hello Esteemed Candidates! You can now check your results. The site is now open. Thank you for your understanding.@IamKingDemian

— WAEC NIGERIA (@waecnigeria) July 18, 2017

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