The Principal of one of the 46 high schools whose students failed in all subjects in this year’s WASSCE exams has challenged the devastating results released for his school by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) Monrovia office recently.
WASSCE is the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and out of the 39, 580 candidates who sat the exams, 12, 329 candidates from 46 schools throughout the country failed to pass any of the subject. They have therefore been barred from graduating.
But the Principal of the Suah Memorial institute in Liberia’s southeastern Grand Gedeh County, Mr. Augustine F. Gaysue has strongly challenged the results pronounced by the head of WAEC, Mr. Dale Gboto on July 25,, 2019.
Mr. Gaysue put up the challenge recently in the County’s capital, Zwedru city.
According to him, his school sent seventy-two students to sit the exams and omitted two names from the listing on ground that those two students were unprepared to sit the exams. And they were not allowed to take the exams.
The Suah Momerial Institute’s Principal is not convinced that all his students failed.
At the same time, some students from another high school in southeastern Liberia have also challenged results from their school that show one hundred percent failure.
Liberian students performed better in this year’s WASSCE than the previous year, according to WAEC boss, Gboto with most of the overall performance he said “is encouraging”.
According to the performance category for 2019, 406 candidates out of the 39,580 passed both math and English while 13 passed in five subjects, including Math and English.
Some 4,379 passed with credits in five subjects while 11,817 passed with credits any three subjects.
Two candidate passed all subjected while 278 others passed in seven subjects
A total of 2,972 candidates passed five subjects while 27,251 passed at least one subject, the WAEC provincial results say.
Some 28,408 candidates representing 71.22 percent of the 39,887 candidates who entered for the examinations, were from private schools across the country, while 11,479 representing 28.78 percent were from public schools across Liberia. Report by Garmah Never Lomo