Since its founding in 1952, the West African Examinations Council, which is owned equally by Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, The Gambia, and Liberia, has been at the forefront of organizing a regional exam for applicants who reside in those countries.
We’ll talk about the WAEC grading system and its interpretation. It is an examination organization that administers the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
Types Of Tests Administered By WAEC
Every year, the regional examination organization administers three tests, including:
1. May/June
2. WAEC GCE
3. WASSCE for independent applicants.
May/June:
Senior secondary school final year students who registered for the Senior School Certificate Examination should take the WASSCE for School Candidates (May/June) exam (SSCE).
Applicants are required to wear their respective school uniforms for the May/June exam, which typically occurs between April and June. External candidates are also required to wear the same uniform as “internal candidates.” Each of them goes through biometric registration.
Note: You can access the examination body site and SMS to check your WAEC result.
GCE WAEC
The General Certificate Examination, often known as WAEC GCE, is held in November and December. It is an exam given to candidates who want to retake papers they received a failing grade on during the May/June exams.
Candidates must submit to biometric registration, much like it is done during the May/June registration procedure, even if they are not obliged to wear uniforms.
WASSCE For Independent Applicants
On April 13, 2017, it was announced that WAEC would hold three exams year, adding an extra exam for private applicants each year to address their issues and challenges and to accommodate those who “want another chance at WASSCE.”
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According to Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, the WAEC registrar as of 2017, “With this trend, there has been a wave of agitation, criticism, and appeal across the sub-region for the council to ease the agony of long waiting experience by private applicants.”
Grades in the WAEC and What They Mean
In Nigeria, applicants who sit for any of the three tests will receive the same grade because the examination board administers all three exams annually.
What you need to score in order to receive an A1 or any other grade and how WAEC awards grades are as follows:
| WAEC Score By Percentage | Grade | Interpretation |
| 75-100 | A1 | Excellent |
| 70-74 | B2 | Very Good |
| 65-69 | B3 | Good |
| 60-64 | C4 | Credit |
| 55-59 | C5 | Credit |
| 50-54 | C6 | Credit |
| 45-49 | D7 | Pass |
| 40-44 | E8 | Pass |
| 0-39 | F9 | Fail |
Figures 1 to 9 are used by WAEC to indicate grades in its grading system. A candidate must receive at least 75 points out of a possible 100 to receive the quality of A1 (Excellent), which is represented by the number 1.
A score between 65 and 69 is classified as B3, while a score between 70 and 74 is classified as B2, which is understood as “very good” (Good). Credit scores between 50 and 64 are denoted by the numbers 6, 5, and 4.
On the original WAEC results, grades 1 through 8 are shown, but failing (F9) is not (June 2000 WAEC result). This implies that if you enrolled for and took the WAEC exam in May or June for nine courses, but when your official WAEC certificate was requested, it only included seven, you failed the remaining two subjects. It’s F9.
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