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Redesign the WAEC Results Experience for First-Generation Students

The moment a student gets their WAEC results is high-stakes and often confusing, especially for those whose parents never sat the exam themselves. Redesign the post-results journey as a digital product, with a focus on students in public schools in Lagos or Ogun State who have no adult at home to help them interpret results or plan next steps.

The brief

Every year, roughly 1.5 million students in Nigeria sit the West African Senior School Certificate Examination. For students in private schools with active guidance counsellors, getting results is the start of a supported process. For students in crowded public schools in Agege, Ikorodu, or Sagamu, it is often the moment support disappears entirely. These students frequently do not know what their grades mean for university admission, what JAMB cut-off scores apply to which institutions, whether a re-sit makes sense, or what vocational and polytechnic routes exist if university is not the path. The information exists online, but it is scattered, written for adults, and assumes prior knowledge. Your task is to design a mobile-first digital product that guides a first-generation student through their post-WAEC results in under 15 minutes. The product should help them understand what they got, what it qualifies them for, and what their realistic next three steps are. It should work on a low-end Android phone with intermittent data. Deliver a set of annotated wireframes (minimum eight screens), a short written rationale explaining your design decisions, and a one-paragraph note on what you would test first with real users. Good work shows awareness of the emotional state of a student who may have failed two or three subjects and handles that with honesty, not false positivity.