WASCE: Nigerian authors blame candidates’ poor
performance on Internet browsing
Association of Nigerian Authors
(ANA) Ebonyi State chapter yesterday blamed the poor performance of candidates
who sat for last year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination
(WASSCE) on too much indulgence on the social media.
The body said that students currently engage more on browsing on the internet, hence there is increasing levels of poor reading culture.
WAEC had last week released the
result of Nov/Dec 2017 WASSCE result with only 25 per cent of the students
recording pass marks in the exam.
Reacting to the result during his
election in Abakaliki, the new Chairman of ANA in the state, Mr. Richard Inya,
regretted that students and exam candidates prefer social media to their books
and called for change of attitude to arrest the situation.
“Young people should go back to
their books, ICT has negatively influenced them. They now place much emphasis
on the social media rather than their books which distracts them. With our
line-up programmes, I hope their performances will improve very well.
“At various levels, we have launched
many programmes to reawaken students’ reading culture. These progarmmes will
reinvigorate reading culture in the country”, he said.
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