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WAEC withholds results of 48,855 candidates as 2019 WASSCE is released

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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the provisional results for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The Council, in a statement, said it will soon dispatch the results to the various schools and candidates can contact the heads of their schools for their results. However, the entire results of 48,855 candidates have been withheld pending the conclusion of investigations into various cases of examination malpractices detected during and after the conduct of the examination. Top Stories On Myjoyonline.com(29-7-19) These misconducts include sending foreign materials such as prepared notes, printed materials and mobile phones to the examination hall. Others are collusion among candidates and planned cheating which occurred with the connivance of some supervisors and school authorities. The 2019 figure represents an increase from last

2019 WASSCE Results leaked on social media, WAEC and GES must come clean

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The West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) result an official information that only the WAEC and its staff have access to until it is officially released by the council has made its way into the public domain. Newsghana24.com has hidden some information on the picture taken from the source to respect the privacy of candidates. The results out in the public domain has over 100 candidates from two schools and names of two examiners. WASSCE 2019 Leaked results The official document, bearing the logo of WAEC and the list of name of candidates and their grades obtained were shared via whatsapp. Some of the lists have the names of schools that sat for the WASSCE 2019 as well as the examiner who marked the scripts. WAEC must wake up from the comma and resurrect quickly. At least the results of one big private school is out there. They boast as being the place where results are made and students hardly fail. They have branches scattered acro