Citi News.<\/strong><\/p>\n“We\u2019ve taken action on all the results so whether it will be released or cancelled, action has been taken. I\u2019ll not be able to give details on how many have been cancelled and how many have been released now.”<\/p>\n
She also confirmed that the schools in which the “irregularities” were detected had already been written to\u00a0“and we\u2019re waiting for the responses.”<\/p>\n
The affected candidates were cited for various malpractices during and after the examination.<\/p>\n
According to Agnes Tei Cudjoe, the number excludes candidates who were detected by the Item\u00a0Differentia\u00a0Profile (IDP) software to have cheated in the object test.<\/p>\n
A total of\u00a0468,060 candidates sat for this year\u2019s examination. The number comprises 241,145 males and 226,906 females.<\/p>\n
According to WAEC, the number represents a 1.53 percent increase from the 2016\u00a0figure. It noted that, 3,315 of the registered candidates did not turn up for the examination sitting.<\/p>\n
The candidates were from a total of 15,185 schools and the examination took place at 1,702 examination\u00a0centres.<\/p>\n
–<\/p>\n
By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n
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The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), has completed investigations into over one thousand 2017 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) results that were withheld. WAEC withheld 1,298 subject results of some candidates who sat for\u00a0the examination on suspicion that they may have engaged in\u00a0examination malpractices. [contextly_sidebar id=”8EVOBob7bq3SnbeJmf0WR9b61m4y9Z96″]According to the Head of Public Affairs of the West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[4523,3,3472],"class_list":["post-352741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-top-stories","tag-bece","tag-ghana-news","tag-waec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}