{"id":93770,"date":"2023-08-07T22:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-07T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/waec-releases-2023-results"},"modified":"2023-08-08T00:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T23:28:04","slug":"waec-releases-2023-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results","title":{"rendered":"WAEC releases 2023 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released results for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).<\/p>\n<p>The examination body released the result on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Areghan, Head of Nigeria\u2019s Office (HNO) of WAEC, said out of a total of 1,613,733 candidates that sat for the examination, the results of 262,803 candidates are being withheld \u201cdue to reports of cases of examination malpractice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said there was an improvement in the pass rate as a total of 1,361,608 candidates, representing 84.38 per cent, obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects with or without English Language or Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>Also, 1,287,920 candidates, representing 79.81 per cent of the total candidates, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released results for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The examination body released the result on Monday. Patrick Areghan, Head of Nigeria\u2019s Office (HNO) of WAEC, said out of a total of 1,613,733 candidates that sat for the examination, the results of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":93768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[11052,1570,2140,1578,254,1166],"class_list":["post-93770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-2023-results","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-nigeria","tag-waec"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>WAEC releases 2023 results - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released results for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Exa ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WAEC releases 2023 results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released results for the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Exa ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-07T21:01:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-07T23:28:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/sm_1691434519.390024.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"WAEC releases 2023 results\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-07T21:01:47+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-07T23:28:04+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results\"},\"wordCount\":137,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/08\/sm_1691434519.390024.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"2023 results\",\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"Nigeria\",\"WAEC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/waec-releases-2023-results\",\"name\":\"WAEC releases 2023 results - 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