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WAEC2018· Scholar SC044

Best WAEC Candidate — 2018

Overall Best — WASSCE 2018

The record · educational context

2018 WASSCE recorded a pass rate of only 48.15% — a dramatic fall from 59.22% in 2017. WAEC attributed this to increased crackdown on examination malpractice through the introduction of e-marking and security features. This year marked the turning point when anti-cheat measures began being deployed systematically.

Subjects

[Pending]

Record

Exam

WAEC

Year

2018

Position

Overall Best — WASSCE 2018

Score

[Pending]

School

[NNC 57th Meeting records — pending]

State

[Pending]

Sources

WAEC Nigeria HNO statement; Pulse Nigeria

https://www.pulse.ng

National education context · 2018

What it took to pass that exam

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

Federal Minister of Education

Mallam Adamu Adamu

2015–2023

Longest-serving Fourth Republic education minister (Buhari, both terms). Tenure includes the record 2020–2022 ASUU strikes (universities shut ~9 months in 2022) and >18m out-of-school children by 2022.

Federal education budget

Being compiled.

State education budget · [Pending]

[Pending] state education budget for 2018 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.