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WAEC2015· Scholar SC045

Best WAEC Candidate — 2015

Overall Best — WASSCE 2015

The record · educational context

The 2015 WASSCE pass rate was 38.68% — an improvement from 31.28% in 2014 but still under 40%. This was the year Adamu Adamu became Minister of Education. Despite low budgets, pass rates began their recovery. The 54th Annual WAEC NNC Meeting awarded best candidates in that diet.

Subjects

[Pending]

Record

Exam

WAEC

Year

2015

Position

Overall Best — WASSCE 2015

Score

[Pending]

School

[NNC 54th Meeting records]

State

[Pending]

Sources

WAEC Nigeria; Pulse Nigeria

https://www.pulse.ng

National education context · 2015

What it took to pass that exam

The realities — political, fiscal, infrastructural — under which Nigerian candidates wrote this examination.

Federal Minister of Education

Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau

2014–2015

Former Kano governor; Jonathan's final education minister.

Federal education budget

Being compiled.

State education budget · [Pending]

[Pending] state education budget for 2015 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

Documented incidents for this year being compiled.

Global body response

No documented international body response on file for this year.

Nigeria's global education ranking

Ranking record for this year being compiled.

The kids passed in spite of these realities. The record stands so that the cost of their achievement is not lost.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.