The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it has withheld 28,768 consequences of competitors who sat for the 2015 November/December West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) over examination misbehavior. The Head of National Office of WAEC, Mr Olutise Adenipekun, made the revelation at a news gathering in Lagos on Thursday where he reported the arrival of the outcomes for private applicants.
As indicated by him, the figure speaks to 12.13 for every penny of 237,154 competitors that sat for the examination.
Adenipekun said that the outcomes were being withheld for further examinations.
He said that reports of the examinations would be exhibited to the Nigeria Examinations Committee (NEC) of the chamber for thought.
Adenipekun, who as of late expected office taking after the retirement of his antecedent, said that the panel's choices would be imparted to the influenced hopefuls at the appropriate time.
He said that 235,542 hopefuls, speaking to 99.23 for each penny, had their outcomes completely prepared and discharged.
"In any case, 1,612 others, speaking to 0.68 for every penny, have few of their subjects as yet being handled because of a few mistakes traceable chiefly to the hopefuls over the span of enlistment or composing the examination.
"Such blunders are being amended by the chamber to empower the influenced contender to have their outcomes,'' he said.
Adenipekun said that 79,490, speaking to 33.51 for each penny of the aggregate number of applicants that sat for the examination, got six credits or more, while 113,573 had five credits.
As per him, 146,253 applicants got credits or more in four subjects, while 175,718 others got credits or more in three subjects.
He said that a sum of 200,304 competitors acquired credits or more in two subjects.
Adenipekun exhorted competitors who sat for the examination to check the points of interest of their outcomes on the board's outcomes site, www.waecdirect.org, inside of 24 hours.
He said that the committee had conveyed another front line innovation to keep on ensuring the honesty of its examinations and "stay numerous progressions in front of culprits of examination misbehavior".
Adenipekun said that the arrangement of an innovation known as "CredenceOne'' was presented amid the 2015 WASSCE November/December eating routine of the committee's examination.
"The innovation is a crossing point portable correspondences biometric gadget.
"It is a portable biometric ID and confirmation framework based on the Android Operating System.
"Utilizing CredenceOne is as straightforward as utilizing your cellular telephone. It is utilized to start and finish the biometric confirmation of hopefuls' fingerprints.
"The gadget is customized to think about the examined unique mark layouts caught amid enrollment and presentation the applicants' subtle elements to check mimic,'' he said.
Adenipekun said that the framework additionally took the applicants' participation and naturally sent the records online to the remote focal server for reporting.
"With this advancement, we can strikingly say that WAEC, Nigeria now has its biometric unique mark recognizable proof and confirmation framework on a cell phone,'' he said. (NAN)
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