Candidates Percentage Who Sat Down For Waec 70% Failed

Over 70 percent of candidates who participated in this
year's WAEC exams have failed, the Head, National
Office of the Council, Charles Eguridu announced
yesterday. Mr Eguridu while announcing the results
said, out of the total number of 241,161 candidates
who sat for the examinations, only 72,522 scored five credits with the two key subjects, giving a pass rate of
29.27 percent. A record which only supersedes that of
2013 by only 1 percent. It will also be recalled that there was also a massive
failure last year when only 86,612 candidates passed
out of a total number of 298,971 candidates who
wrote the examinations.