One million five hundred and ninety thousand, two hundred and eighty-four candidates (1,590,284) sat for the examination in which only 562, 413 candidates obtained credits in five subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics. Put differently, 1,029,871 representing 64.63 per cent failed to obtain admission requirement to the nation's universities.
South-eastern states lead as WASSCE releases 2015 May/June results
By John Owen Nwachukwu on February 5, 2016States in the South-eastern part of Nigeria have retained their lead as details of the May/June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results were made public on Thursday.
The region is leading in the performance chart of candidates who obtained credits in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. Abia State topped the chart with 33,762 of its 52,801 candidates.
In four Federal Government colleges, no candidate obtained five credits and above, including English and Mathematics.
The schools are the Federal Government Girls' College, Bajoga, Gombe State; FGGC, Bauchi; FGGC Gboko, and the Federal Science and Technical College, Kafanchan.
To ensure university admission in the country, a student must obtain credits in five subjects and above, including English Language and Mathematics.
In the chart, Anambra State came second with 28, 379 out of 46, 385 candidates. While Abia State scored 63.94 per cent, Anambra got 61.18 per cent out of 100 per cent.
Edo State emerged third with 38, 052 of its 62, 327 candidates getting five credits and above. It had 61.05 per cent. Rivers and Imo states came fourth and fifth respectively.
Meanwhile, with 4.37 per cent, Yobe State came last on the 2015 rankings list with only 646 candidates obtaining five credits and above including English and Mathematics. Fourteen thousand, seven hundred and eighty-four pupils, comprising 10, 807 males and 3,977 females, sat for the examination in the state.
Apart from Yobe State, seven other northern states took the bottom positions in the rankings involving the 36 states and Abuja. They are Zamfara (36th), Jigawa (35th), Gombe (34th), Katsina (33rd), Kebbi (32nd) Bauchi (31st) and Sokoto (30th).
Lagos with 68, 173 out of 141, 963 candidates that sat for the examination is placed sixth on the rankings. In fact, 32, 595 males and 35, 578 females obtained the required benchmark for university admission.
The statistics as obtained by Punch on Thursday showed that Osun and Oyo states placed 29th and 26th respectively. While 8,801 candidates out of 48,818 obtained the basic entry requirement for university admission in Osun, Oyo State recorded only 21.03 per cent success in the examination.
Of the 78,896 candidates Oyo State presented, only 16,588 of them obtained five credits and above including English and Mathematics.
According to a WAEC source, the breakdown is the consolidated results approved by the council following its National Examinations Committee meeting held in November.
One million five hundred and ninety thousand, two hundred and eighty-four candidates sat for the examination in which only 562, 413 candidates obtained credits in five subjects and above including English Language and Mathematics.
Put differently, 1,029,871 representing 64.63 per cent failed to obtain admission requirement to the nation's universities.
Mr. Charlse Eguridu, the former Head of National of the council, announced the release of the results last August.
A further breakdown of the 2015 results, revealed that the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th positions went to Bayelsa, Delta, Enugu and Ebonyi states in that order.
Ekiti State is placed 11th with 8,954 out of its 21, 333 candidates that sat for the examination getting the required admission benchmark.
Kaduna, Ondo, Abuja, Kogi, Benue, Akwa Ibom, and Kwara states came 12th, 13th, 14, 15th and 16th in that order.
Ogun State with 75,994 candidates occupied the 19th position. The state bagged 32.89 per cent with its 25, 006 candidates, comprising 12,059 males and 12, 947 females, obtaining five credits and above including English and Mathematics.
In the 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th and 25 slots are Cross River, Taraba, Plateau, Nassarawa, Kano and Borno states in that order. While 15,903 candidates out of 62,511 obtained the benchmark in Kano, 5,347 out of 21,695 got the same results in Borno.
Adamawa and Niger states seat on the rankings list ahead of Osun State. They are on the 27th and 28th. While Osun State recorded 18.03 per cent success, Niger and Adamawa states got 19.66 and 18.08 per cent respectively.
Meanwhile, the federal Government Girl's College, Benin outshined the others with 230 of its 232 candidates meeting the University requirements in the performance register for the 104 Federal Government colleges in the same examination.
The Federal Government Girls' College, Kazaure, occupied the second slot with only two of its pupils also missing the benchmark. But while FGGC Benin, obtained 99.14 per cent, its Kazaure counterpart, got 98.10 per cent.
The breakdown showed that the Federal Government College, Rubochi, came third with its 146 candidates, comprising 94 males and 52 females, out of 156 that sat for the examination putting up good showings.
The Federal Government Academy, Suleja; FGC, Okigwe, and the FGC, Nise, came fourth, fifth and sixth.
From the Unity schools in Lagos, the FGC, Ijanikin, which occupied the seventh position in the rankings, emerged the best in the state with 357 out of its 387 candidates that sat for the examination obtaining the basic university entry requirement.
It came ahead of the over 100-year-old Kings College (18th), Federal Science and Technical College, Yaba (21st) and the Queens College (54th). While 361 out of 452 candidates obtained their papers at KC, 181 out of 413 females succeeded at QC.
Occupying the eighth, ninth, 10th, 11th and 12th positions are the FGC, Okposi; FGC, Ikole-Ekiti; FGGC Efon-Alaye; FGGC, Minjibir, and the FGC, Jos, in that order.
From the statistics, it was observed that of the 74 candidates that sat for the examination at the FGGC, Bajoga, no one got the basic admission requirement.
It was the scenario at the FGGC, Bauchi and Gboko. Whereas 143 candidates sat for the examination in the Bauchi school, 144 females did the same at the FGGC, Gboko.
For the FSTC, Kafanchan, of the 40 candidates, comprising 29 males and 11 females that sat for the examination, no one also obtained the minimum entry requirements to the university.
Of the 26 Unity schools occupying the bottom positions on the performance chart, 22 of them are located in the North. The other four colleges are the FGGC, Ikot Obio Itong, Ukam at 89th position; FGGC, Calabar (92nd); FSTC, Uyo (93rd) and the FGC, Idoani, Ondo State occupying the 96th position.
In the May/June 2014 WASSCE, 529,425 candidates, representing 31.28 per cent of the candidates, obtained the minimum university entry requirement. One million, six hundred and ninety-two thousand, four hundred and thirty-five candidates sat for the examination that year.
In May/June 2013, 639,334 candidates, representing 38.30 per cent, qualified to seek admission to university in the country. One million five hundred and forty-three thousand, six hundred and eight-three candidates sat for the examination.
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--"Abia state topped the chart with 33, 762 of its 52, 801 candidates getting five credits and above including Mathematics and English thereby securing 63.94 per cent. Anambra followed with 61.18 per cent as 28, 379 out of 46, 385 candidates performed well.Edo state came third with 38, 052 of its 62, 327 candidate getting five credits and above while Rivers, Imo, Lagos, Bayelsa, Delta, Enugu and Ebonyi rounding up the top ten in the performance ranking.Only 646 candidates from the 14, 784 that wrote the exam in Yobe got five credits and above the thereby coming last with 4.27 per cent. Northern states occupied the rear positions with nine northern states in the last ten positions. They are Adamawa, Osun, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kebbi, Katsina, Gombe, Jigawa, Zamfara and Yobe. Lagos with 68, 173 out of 141, 963 candidates that sat for the examination placed sixth on the rankings...." Culled from Newstory.Afis BirdsEyeView: I hate non-thinkers. In fact, I see them as time wasters. I don't care when people are wrong, I just check their contribution and see if any Thinking was put into it.All my jobs where I headed people, I never fired anyone for being wrong, but I never kept a non-thinker.That brings us to this WAEC thing.Really, I wasn't interested in the above excerpted WAEC crapola because firstly, I know Naija educational system and I don't place too much on it; secondly in my best of judgment like all Nigeria's numbers and satanic verses, I never believed it would represent the real situation of education progress in Nigeria.I did not read it at first, however, after reading no-brainers from the usual suspects like Vin Otuonye and Joe Attueyi, people who do not allow their minds to mull issues before jumping happy, I decided to actually open the numbers and read it.......my own way.....well I am right again, there ain't nothing there but losers Cheering on National Mediocrity and Shame of a Nation.Let's break it down:1. Abia: Out of 52,801, only 33, 762 passed with 5credits.2. Anambra: Out of 46,385, only 28, 379 performed well.These are the firsts of the best. Right?Here is 19th on the Satanic numbers:Ogun State with 75,994 candidates 25,006 candidates, comprising 12,059 males and 12, 947 females, obtaining five credits and above including English and Mathematics......this looks awful right?Let's get it straight again:25,006 students passed with 5credits in Ogun, and it came 19th.28, 379 passed in Anambra, and it came 2nd.33,762 passed in Abia, and it came first?WHILE EDO CAME 3rd WITH 38,052 PASSED?Wait a minute, 38,052 passed in Edo, 5,000 more than Abia, but it came third having 10,000 passed more than a state which has 28,379 (Anambra), if you bean counted the numbers!And this is the kicker: 68,173 STUDENTS PASSED IN LAGOS, AND IT CAME 6th.More students passed in Lagos more than the whole 53,000 that took the exam in Abia!I wonder what is the noise here?How high are the differences in the actual students that passed without throwing some "fools paradise" percentages?Out of over 1,000,000 students in Nigeria, about 500,000 passed in Nigeria as a whole. And Joe Attueyi the fake pastor and fake Nationalist, with another fake Nationalist called Vin Otuonye, are happy about Abia and Anambra.Who are they kidding?Are they real Nationalists or Igbo Tribalists with Hate-filled minds?Our Nationalists are concerned about Yoruba states alone, trying to point out free education started not more than five years ago, and Opon Imo just on its maiden voyage, are the Cause of a National endemic.THE HALF EMPTY PHENOM:They are happy about Abia coming first, I ask them to focus on Abia's failure.Is it a good thing when in Abia about 20,000 failed?And the morons in Igboland are patting each other on the back just on coming 1st among National Mediocrity.Is it a good thing when about 50,000 failed in Ogun?Even when 68,000 passed in Lagos, is it a thing of pride when about 70,000 failed?And let's not forget that while about 28,000 passed in Anambra, about 20, 000 failed. What are these fools happy about?Are Nigerians crackpots or they just act that way?ShikenaAfis"Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame." — Dhamapada, verse 81.Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 5, 2016, at 5:33 PM, olakassimmd via AfricanWorldForum <africanworldforum@googlegroups.com> wrote:"Only 646 candidates from the 14, 784 that wrote the exam in Yobe got five credits and above the thereby coming last with 4.27 per cent. Northern states occupied the rear positions with nine northern states in the last ten positions. They are Adamawa, Osun, Sokoto, Bauchi, Kebbi, Katsina, Gombe, Jigawa, Zamfara and Yobe. Lagos with 68, 173 out of 141, 963 candidates that sat for the examination placed sixth on the rankings."Analysis of 2015 WAEC resultsPastor Joe and Vin:
I was just going to make the same comments on Opon Imo.It appears that the hundreds millions of Naira spent on opon imohave not yielded the expected results.
It is unwise to depend too heavily on digital educationin an environment in which electricity supply isin adequate and irregular. Chalk and blackboard,paper textbooks and exercise books still have their places in modern education,
The best value adding investments in education are the following:
a) ensure the children are well nourished no matter the socio-economic statusof their parents before going to school and during school hours.
b) provide conducive environment for education with well maintained and weather protectedclass rooms as it is difficult to achieve excellence in education when the children/students have to takemost of their classes outdoors protected only by shade of the trees or in ramshackleclassrooms with thatched roofs.
c) train and employ ONLY well qualified and well trained teachers in adequate numbers and ensure that their remunerationsare commensurate with their training and their jobs and that such remunerations are paid when due.
It is quite possible that the a more detailed analysis of the WAEC results would confirm the following:
1) students from private secondary schools would have done much better n aggregate than children frompublic schools.
2) the higher the socio-economic status and the level of education attained by the parents, the higher the performanceof the students in WAEC and vice versa
The results of the WAEC exams mirror the socio-economic development status of different regionsof Nigeria as they are inversely proportional to the poverty rates in across Nigeria.Northern Nigerian states have the highest poverty rates in the country. Not surprisingly they also havethe worst results in the WAEC exams.
The journalist who analyzed the 2015 WAEC results would probably not have scored that highly in Geography orCivics as I noticed that he has shifted Osun state to the Northern Nigeria:)
The year in year out WAEC results constitute an indirect measure of the state of the nation in Nigeria and howthe citizens in her component states and zones are fairing socioeconomically now and how well or badly they would perform in the future.
The most marginalized zones in Nigeria are the NW, NC and the NE. These zones need a "Marshall Plan"in the form of additional socio-economic stimuli or else they would continue to deter the socio-economic progress in the restof Nigeria.
Bye,
Ola--
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I am surprised. Very surprised.
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Subject: Re: [africanworldforum] WAEC 2015: Abia and Anambra States top WAEC Ranking–See List
Osun state with its 'opon Imo' is the worst performing state in the south and in the bottom 10 states nationally
The limits of propaganda
Joe
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