HAVE Nigerians accepted mass failures in secondary school examinations? Mass failures no longer produce shocks or the sort of debates predicated on concerns about a fractured future.
The West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, has released its 2014 May/June 2014 Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examination, SSCE, results. The 31.28 per cent pass in five subjects or more, including English and Mathematics (1,692,435 candidates sat for the examination), was a drop in 38.81 per cent recorded in 2012 and 36.57 per cent in 2013.
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