The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released provisional results for the 2021 West African Senior High School Certificate Examination.
A total of 446,352 candidates made up of 221,439 males and 224,913 females.
A statement by WAEC said there were improvements in the performance of candidates at Grades A1 to C6 in Integrated Science and Social Studies in 2021 as against 2020.
However, English Language and Mathematics (Core) recorded a decline in the performance of candidates at Grade A1 to C6 as compared to 2020.
Of the number of candidates who sat for the paper, 238,819 candidates representing 54.08% had AI-C6 with 50,255 candidates representing 11.38% scoring D7 and 39,760 representing 9.0% scoring E8.
61, 778 candidates representing 13.99% failed by scoring F9.
For Integrated Science, 289,329 (66.70%) scored A1-C6 whereas 66,178 (15.3%) scored D7.
41,686 (9.47%) candidates scored E8 while 20,599 (4.68%) failed (F9).
A total of 290,545 (66.03%) candidates scored A1-C6 in Social Studies.
41,506 (9.43%) candidates scored D7 with 33,671 (7.65%) and 64,184 candidates (14.59%) failing with F9 as a score.
Mathematics
238,539 candidates (54.11%) scored A1-C6.
39,547 candidates (8.97%) scored D7 whereas 45,526 (10.33%) and 88,631 candidates (20.11%) candidates scoring E8 and F9 respectively.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
