Flashbakc: What to do if your WASSCE or BECE result has been WITHHELD

What to do if your WASSCE/BECE result has been WITHHELD is one big question many students continue to find answers to. Let us help you calm down and know exactly what you must do if the your results are pending or withheld by WAEC.

One big mistake you may do in such a situation will be to pay money to fraudsters who promise you that they will change your resilts for you or help WAEC to release the results.

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Knowing that your results have been withheld can be very stressful, especially when you believe that you did not engage in any form of examination malpractice.

What is worse is that you you may not gain entry to university this year as the school you applied to as an awaiting student will not have access to your results.

What you should do at this point is not to fret but to be calm and trust that WAEC will conclude their investigation for your results will be released.

What to do if your WASSCE/BECE result has been WITHHELD? It is anticipated that the examination council will conclude their investigations before the end of August.

WAEC, in a statement has said that candidates who will be found guilty of examination malpractice will have their results cancelled.

Offence Leading to Withholding of BECE/WASSCE results by  WAEC

1. bringing foreign material such as prepared notes, printed material and mobile phones to the examination hall
2. Collusion among candidates
3. Planned cheating which occurred with the connivance of some supervisors and school authorities

The withheld results of candidates may be cancelled or released based on the outcome of the investigations.

The West African Examinations Council on Monday announced that it has released the provisional results of school candidates who sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).

Although statistics of this year’s results result show that there is a general improvement in the performance of candidates at A1-C6 in all the core subjects, the number of candidates whose results have been withheld has seen an over 70% increment over last year’s figure.

We hope we have provided some asnswers to your question “What to do if your WASSCE/BECE result has been WITHHELD?”

Source: educationghana.net| Newsghana24.com