The use of chat and text messages abbreviations has become rampant among candidates who sit for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination.The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) laments.

The Council stated that the use of these abbreviated symbols is the “general weaknesses of candidates in the various subjects” of the Council’s examinations.

This was contained in a statement issued at the weekend by the Public Affairs Officer of the Council, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, after the 60th Meeting of the Nigeria Examinations Committee, the Council’s highest decision-making organ in Nigeria.

The statement read, “General weaknesses of candidates in the various subjects as outlined in the Reports include poor command of language, indiscriminate lifting of portions of set passages as answers and use of text message abbreviation “u” for “you” in English Language.”

The statement also disclosed that appropriate sanctions have been issued to candidates, schools and supervisors who were defaulters in order to reduce the rate of examination malpractice.

“The Committee endorsed appropriate sanctions in all established cases of malpractice as prescribed by the Rules and Regulations governing the conduct of the Council’s examinations after diligent deliberations. It approved that the entire results of candidates involved in proven cases, which attract cancellation of entire results (CER) be cancelled, while subject results of those involved in cases which attract cancellation of subject results (CSR) be similarly cancelled.”

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