Accra, Oct. 11, GNA - The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Tuesday announced the cancellation of 4,448 subject results; 63 entire results; 118 93unqualified" candidates and annulment of the entries of 346 93unqualified" candidates.

A statement issued in Accra by Mrs Agnes Teye-Cudjoe, Principal Public Affairs Officer of WAEC, said this was the outcome of investigations into malpractices during the examination. It said the entire results of candidates in two schools were still being withheld as investigations continued into the registration of candidates who were not their bonafide students. The statement said school authorities who connived with their candidates to cheat or were lax in their duties as examination officials will be reported to the Ghana Education Service (GES) for sanctioning.

Malpractices recorded by the Council were collusion and mass cheating as a result of poor supervision and invigilation at some centres; bringing foreign materials such as mobile phones, prepared notes and printed material into the examination hall; seeking/receiving help from non-candidates such as invigilators, supervisors and teachers.

The rest are failure to complete in full the cover pages of their answer booklets; tearing parts of their question papers and answer booklets and registration of 93unqualified" candidates by some schools. The statement said after the investigations, provisional statistics released on the results were out of the 147,295 who sat for Social Studies, 121,323 students representing 82.36 per cent had credit and above (A1-C6), 21,117 students representing 14.32 per cent had pass grades (D7-E8) and 4,691 students representing 3.18 per cent failed.

A total of 147,376 sat for English Language, 112,020 representing 76 per cent had credit and above (A1-C6), 27,252 representing 18.48 per cent had pass grades (D7-E8) and 5,733 representing 3.89 per cent failed.

Mathematics had 147,227 out of which 64,665 representing 43.92 per cent had credit and above (A1-C6) 47,831 representing 32.48 per cent had pass grades (D7-E8) and 33,708 representing 22.89 per cent failed.

A total of 147,296 students sat for Integrated Science and 62,014 representing 42.10 per cent had credit and above (A1-C6) 57,207 representing 38.83 per cent had pass grades (D7-E8) 27,488 representing 18.66 per cent failed.