8 students top Liberia 2020 WAEC exam; Result for over 39,000 Students withheld for Irregularities

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Several students sitting the 2020 WASSCE exams in Monrovia

At long last,the Monrovia office of  Regional Examinations Administrator, West African Examinations Council, WAEC has released the 2020 result for Liberia.

Over 40,000 students across Liberia sat this year’s exams.

speaking at the release of the result on Friday, November 13, 2020 WAEC says it will not be releasing the Liberian examination results for 39, 263 senior high school students for  “fraud, and irregularities”.

WAEC Boss Gbotoe told journalists Friday, at a press conference that the results will be released after a review by the Liberia examination committee.

Forty-one thousand, five hundred and thirty-eight (41,538) Senior high school students sat the exams.

This means that only two thousand two hundred and seventy five (2,275) students came out clean without any traces of irregularities.

However, the results show a marked improvement in the performance of students in this year’s results.

Twenty-five (25) candidates, ten (10) females and fifteen (15) males were able to make the highest marks in all five subjects of the exams.

The twenty-five candidates that passed all five subjects, ten of them came from the Seku Ibraham Sheriff High School, five from the Firestone Liberia high school System, three from the St. Teresa’s Convent high school, and two from the St. Peter Clever catholic high school amongst others.

Out of the twenty-five candidates, three students from the St.Theresa Convent and Light international School topped the exams.

Mr. Gbotoe added  that in the entire exams, eight students, three females and five males are known to be the best performing candidates.

The best performing candidates came from Montserrado, Margibi and Nimba counties.

 

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