The Examinations Committee (NEC) of the West African Examinations (WAEC) has approved appropriate sanctions in all established cases of malpractice, as prescribed by the Rules and Regulations governing the conduct of the Council’s examinations.
This was the highlight of the communiqué released by the NEC at the end of its 72nd meeting held from Thursday, January 27th to Saturday, January 29, 2022 held at the WAEC Testing and Training Centre (WTTC) Ogba, Lagos.
NEC which is WAEC highest decision making organ of on examination matters in Nigeria further directed that the entire results of candidates proven to have been involved in malpractice cases which attract the penalty of cancellation of entire results be cancelled, while subject results of candidates proven to have been involved in malpractice cases which attract the penalty of cancellation of subject results, be similarly cancelled.
A statement by Acting Head, Public Affairs, WAEC, Yaba, Moyosola Adeyegbe disclosed that NEC agreed that some candidates will suffer other sanctions such as being barred from sitting for the council’s examinations for two years.
The statement further said: “Some schools will be derecognized for a specified number of years or have their recognition completely withdrawn. Some Supervisors that were found wanting in the discharge of their examination duties will be formally reported to their employers and blacklisted while some Invigilators will also be reported to the appropriate authorities for disciplinary action.”
It added that the resolutions of the committee will be implemented without delay and the affected candidates and schools duly informed by the Council.
“However, the results of candidates who were exonerated by the committee will be released without further delay,” the statement said.
It was further disclosed that the committee considered Special Cases, Appeals for Clemency, Impounded and Restitution Cases from WASSCE for school candidates, 2021. It also received a report on the statistics of entries and results for WASSCE for private candidates, 2020 – second series and WASSCE for private candidates, 2021 – first series.
In addition, it was disclosed that it received and considered the general résumé of the Chief Examiners’ Reports on WASSCE for private candidates, 2021- first series and WASSCE for school candidates, 2021. It equally received and considered reports on the activities of the Aptitude Tests Department (ATD), for the period April, 2021 to December, 2021 and on the activities of the research department of the council for the period April, 2021 to November, 2021.
With regard to the general résumé of the chief examiners report on WASSCE for private candidates’, 2021 – first series, the committee was said to have noted the observation by the chief examiners that the standard of the papers compared favourably with those of previous years and that the clarity and un-ambiguity of the questions were worthy of note as they were within the scope of the syllabuses.
“They also stated that the rubrics were clear, questions were explicit and the marking schemes were comprehensive,” the statement noted, adding that the committee noted the various shortcomings of the candidates as reported by the chief examiners.
The statement concluded by saying that the committee, having observed the success rate and excellent performance of candidates who sat WASSCE for school candidates, 2021 congratulated the Management of the Nigeria national office of WAEC and stakeholders on the overall performance of candidates which was a significant improvement on that of the previous examination.
