OYO State government has disclosed that the state recorded its best result in WASSC examinations in 18 years, saying that its 54.18% passed rate of students with minimum of 5 credits including Mathematics and English is very encouraging when compared to the National passed average of 59%.
The government stated that 29,174 candidates representing 54.14 have a minimum of five (5) credits pass out of the 53,850 who sat for the exam, noting that the 29,174 candidates comprise of 13,884 males and 15,290 females.
The State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Toye Arulogun who released the figures on Wednesday in Ibadan, posited that the 2017 average results have an improvement ratio of above 100% over the 2016 results which stood at 22.12%.