WAEC releases May/June 2017 SSCE results

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released its May/June 2017 secondary school certificate examination results.

The council said on its Twitter account on Monday that the results of 94.36 per cent of the 1,471,151 candidates that sat for the examination were released.

Of that number, 923,486 candidates, representing 59.22 per cent, obtained minimum of number of credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

The examination started on February 20 and ended on May 15.

The examination’s pass rate in 2016 stood at 52.97 per cent.

According to the council, candidates who sat for the examination in 2017 will be able to check their results via waecdirect.org.

It advised the candidates to use the result checker PIN and Serial Number on the CIVAMPENS Card issued to them

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