The National Examinations Committee of WAEC (NEC) on Thursday said that it had cancelled results of candidates involved in examination malpractices at the 2014 examinations. Mr Damianus Ojijeogu of the Public Affairs Department of WAEC disclosed this in a statement in Lagos. He said that the decision was taken at the 59th meeting of the committee.
Mr Damianus Ojijeogu said the committee reviewed a report on irregularity and special and clemency cases arising from the conduct of the May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) at the meeting.
According to him, the committee considered a report on the conduct of the November/December 2014 WASSCE, including irregularity cases arising from the conduct of the examination. It said that there were proven cases of malpractices by some candidates.
“In the course of considering the various reported cases of malpractice, the committee, after diligent deliberations, approved appropriate sanctions in all established cases of malpractice.
“This action is as prescribed by the rules and regulations governing the conduct of the council’s examinations. “It approved that the entire results of such candidates involved in proven cases be cancelled. “The communiqué also recommended that the subjects’ results of those involved in proven cases of malpractice be similarly cancelled.
“ In addition, some candidates will also suffer other sanctions such as barring them from sitting for the council’s examinations for a certain number of years,” it said. The statement said that the decisions of the committee would be implemented without delay, while the affected candidates would be duly informed by the council. It, however, said that the results of candidates exonerated by the committee would be released.
According to the communiqué, the committee’s sanctions will also be imposed on all the ad-hoc examination staff that condoned the malpractice. “The committee has directed all the ad-hoc examination functionaries, who were indicted of involvement or condoning malpractice during the conduct of the examination, be reported to appropriate state Ministries of Education.
According to the communiqué, identified weaknesses of candidates are mentioned in the reports including poor mathematical skills and Geography 3. It also identified other weaknesses ranging from poor handwriting, omission of units in their final answers to numerical problems in Physics 2 and inability to spell technical terms correctly as observed in Biology 3 and Health, among others.
The communiqué suggested the need for students to learn the basic principles and concepts in the various subjects and apply them in solving everyday problems as some of the remedies. It urged the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission to urgently facilitate the recognition of the newly introduced trade subjects.
2 thoughts on “Malpractices: WAEC cancels results of 2014 SSCE/GCE candidates”
Cancelling of innocent people result is not d best soln.since u knw dat corruption has uproot d nation,smone who use is own brain & also burncandle duri & b4 exams commence dere stil a possibilities similarity btw who was given runs but u can knw d difference only if u understand nt everybody as d courage 2 cheat or do runs.pls crry out d investigation again b4 next exams.
I did not do any malpractice but my result was held and cancelled. those examiners u people send to centres are the people that randomly chose works of students and copy them word for word for their absent so called special candidates. cz of what has happened i have forfeited my jamb result and as well did not write the ume exams. it is frustrating.