The West African Examinations
Council (WAEC)
has released the provisional results
of the 2014
Basic Education Certificate
Examination (BECE).
Out of the 420,188 candidates from
12,562
schools who wrote the
examination, 11,759
candidates from 337 schools have
had their
results withheld pending the
conclusion of
investigations into alleged
examination
malpractices.
Stanine grading system
A statement signed by the Principal
Public Affairs
Officer of WAEC, Mrs Agnes Teye-
Cudjoe,
explained that the Stanine grading
system was
used for the BECE, with Grade One
as the
highest and Grade Nine the lowest.
Stanine (Standard NINE) is a
method of scaling
test scores on a nine-point
standard scale with a
mean of five and a standard
deviation of two.
Thirteen of the candidates had their
candidature
nullified because they were found
not to be
bona fide students of the schools
which
registered them for the examination
and that
their continuous assessment scores
had been
forged.
Examination malpractices
The statement further said 398
candidates had
their subject results cancelled.
The affected candidates, it said,
were involved
in various examination
malpractices, such as
bringing foreign materials into the
examination
hall and collusion.
“Further, the entire results of 64
candidates
have been cancelled. These include
those who
brought mobile phones to the
examination hall
and received external assistance,”
it added.
Scratch card
The statement said the council was
in the
process of despatching the results
to the schools
through the municipal/district
directors of
education.
“Meanwhile, the council has hosted
the results
online and candidates who so
desire may access
their results online at the council’s
website using
a scratch card,” it advised.
Statistics
A total of 422,946 candidates, made
up of
219,394 males and 194,854 females,
registered
for the examination.
The figure was 8.15 per cent higher
than that of
the previous year.
The candidates were from 12,562
schools and
the examination was conducted at
1,431
centres.
The WAEC statement explained that
2,758
candidates, representing 0.59 per
cent of those
who had initially registered for the
examination,
were absent.
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