Education experts say it is not right to use the wide gap between the pass rates at the 2016 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) administered by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the examinations organised by the National Examination Council (NECO), as a basis to determine the quality of students produced in both processes.
Pay Obaya, who is Chairman of Council of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and sits on the Committee of Experts of Education International (EI), in an emailed response to BusinessDay enquiry said “the two tests have very little in common and are not comparable. The two examination bodies do not use the same examination syllabus and we are not sure that the same candidates wrote the two examinations under similar conditions”
Fifty-three percent of candidates who sat for the May/June SSC examination administered by the WAEC obtained five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics, whilst 80.16 percent of candidates who sat for an equivalent examination administered...
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