A statement issued by the council in Accra on Monday said “The council will like to their caution all its stakeholders to be wary of fraudsters who promise to upgrade results for a fee.

Candidates are to note that WAEC re­sults are secured and can be authenticated using its results verification system. The WAEC QR code can be downloaded and used to verify results.”

The statement notes that this year’s results for school candidates had been the best in four years, with the majority of candidates obtaining grades A1-C6 in the four core subjects.
    

The subjects are: English language, so­cial studies, integrated science and mathe­matics.

In Mathematics, 73.11 per cent of the candidates obtained grades A1-C6 this year as against 60.39 per cent in 2022, 54.08 per cent in 2021 and 57. 34 per cent in 2020.

For mathematics, the total candidature with grades A1-C6 this year is 62.23 per cent, while 61.39 per cent and 54.11 per cent obtained those grades in 2022 and 2021 respectively.

Candidates, however, recorded a better performance of 65.71 per cent in Mathe­matics 2020. The 2023 candidates recorded 62.23 per cent grade A1-C6 as against 62.45 per cent in 2022, 65.70 per cent in 2021 and 52.53 per cent in 2020.

A total of 76.76 per cent of the candi­dates this year had grades A1- C6 in social studies, with previous years recording 71-51 per cent in 2022, 66.03 per cent in 2021 and 64.31 per cent in 2020 for the same grades.

A total of 448, 674 candidates, made up of 212, 453 males and 236, 221 females from 975 schools, entered for the 2023 WASSCE for school candidates.

The figure was 5.8 per cent higher than the 2022 entry figure of 422,883.

A total of 3,404(0.75 per cent) were absent from the examination, a statement signed by the Head of Public Affairs of the West African examinations Council (WAEC), John Kapi, and issued in Accra on Monday said.

It explained that 325,280 candidates rep­resenting 73.11 per cent scored between A1 and C6 in English Language in the 2023 WASSCE for school candidates. Howev­er 32,408 candidates rep­resenting 7.28 per cent of the candidates had Grade D7 while 21, 253 repre­senting 5.28 per cent had F9 in English Language.

The statement said 276,272 candidates rep­resenting 62.23 per cent obtained grades between A1 and C6, while 36,373 representing 8.9 per cent scored grade D7 with 26,566 representing 5.99per cent scored E8 and 25,029 repre­senting 5.64per cent scoring grade F9.

In social studies, 340,867 representing 76.76per cent made grades between A1 and C6, with 29,470 representing 6.64per cent scored grade D7 while 19, 616 rep­resenting 4.42 per cent had grade E8 and 26,186 representing 5.90 per cent scored grade F9.

The further stated that the subject results of candidates from 235 schools had been withheld for allegedly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) generated answers.

In addition, the result of 647 candidates were cancelled for bringing in foreign ma­terials such as prepared notes, textbooks, and printed materials into the examination hall