16-Year-Old Ugboaja Chizobam Is WAEC’s Best Candidate For 2019 | See Why
Sixteen- year-old Ugboaja Chizobam Stephany has emerged the youngest, best candidate ever recorded by the West African Examination Council (WAEC), TheCable reports. This is coming after the West African Examination Council (WAEC) released the results of candidates who participated in its 2019 May/June West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) on July 26, 2019.
Ugboaja scored ‘A’s in all subjects including data processing, mathematics, further mathematics, physics, chemistry, English and biology,
A total of 1,596161 candidates registered for the examination from 18,639 recognized secondary schools in Nigeria and 1,020,519 of them obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects.
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Stephany graduated from the Jesuit Memorial College in Port Harcourt where she sat for the just concluded Senior Schools Certificate Examination (SSCE).
The courses she took were Further Mathematics, General Mathematics, English Language, Biology, Physics, Chemistry, Civic Education, Economics and Data Processing. She emerged with distinctions in all nine subjects.
Recall that in the same light, 15-year-old David Okorogeye impressed everyone with his performance in the WAEC exams last year after scoring As in all his subjects.
The smart young chap who graduated from a reputable school in Fagba, Agege area of Lagos state, is a science student who made his family members and school proud.