WAEC Announces 2021 WASSCE Private Result Release Date

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Sunday announced when the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for Private Candidates 2021- Second Series will be released.

The exam body in a post on its official Twitter handle yesterday, disclosed that the 2021 WASSCE results would be released on Monday (today), February 14, 2022.

Naija News understands that WASSCE for Private Candidates also known as General Certificate Examination, GCE, is usually written in November/December and is mostly taken by secondary school leavers who want to correct deficiencies in their results.

It’s a private examination and no uniforms are worn during the exam sitting, only biometric registration is compulsory.

Giving an update on the release of the results on Sunday night, WAEC wrote: “@waecnigeria is set to announce the release of results of WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2021- Second Series tomorrow, Monday, February 14, 2022. Stay tuned for more details!”

Meanwhile, the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board, JAMB, has announced that the 2022/23 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) Registrations will now commence in the 3rd week of February.

The exam body in a statement released last Tuesday said the exercise earlier scheduled to start on February 12, 2022, will now kick-off on Saturday, February 19th and end on the 26th of March 2022.

According to JAMB, the reschedule was to enable more fine-tuning of the upgraded and user-friendly procedures for candidates’ registration.

The development according to Dr. Fabian Benjamin, Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, is aimed at accommodating feedback from candidates and other stakeholders.

He noted that the fine-tuning process will round up within the one-week extension period given before the commencement of registration, Naija News reports.