WASSCE 2025 New Results Out, Pass Rate Now 62% – Official
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the revised results of its 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), indicating a 24.64 per cent increase in the number of candidates who secured credits in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
Earlier on Monday, WAEC had announced that merely 38.32 per cent of its 1,969,313 candidates secured credits in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
However, at a press briefing on Friday, the Head of Nigeria’s Office (HNO) of WAEC, Amos Dangut, said after reviewing the process, the new statistics indicates that a total of 1,239,884 of the 1,969,313 candidates, representing 62.96 per cent, secured credits in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
To gain admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria, candidates must obtain credit in five relevant subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
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The statistics earlier released indicated that the results represented the worst performance recorded by WAEC in many years. The examination body had blamed the development on the activities of examination malpractice syndicates, such as those it described as rogue website operators.
The development had sparked reactions from stakeholders, including candidates, parents, teachers, and school owners, among others, who accused the examination body of subjecting the candidates to harsh conditions during the conduct of the examinations.
On 28 May, when WAEC conducted the English Language examination, many candidates had stayed till very late in the night due to logistic problems encountered by the examination body.
WAEC makes U-turn
Following the backlash that greeted the poor results announced by WAEC, the examination body, on Thursday, announced that it had shut down its portal for checking results, noting that it suspected that a technical glitch experienced during the computation of the results had affected the performance of the candidates.
Mr Dangut apologised for the discomfort caused to the candidates, their parents, and other stakeholders by the withdrawal of the results.
He said: “However, during an internal post-examination review of the released results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC) 2025, some discrepancies were discovered in the grading of serialised papers. We had earlier informed you that the Council embarked on an innovation (paper serialisation) already deployed by a national examination body.
“The Council, being an accountable, transparent, and credible organisation, further investigated all the serialised papers (Mathematics, English Language, Biology and Economics Objective Papers) and discovered that a serialised code file was wrongly used in the printing of English Language Objective Tests (Paper 3), which resulted in them been (being) scored with wrong keys. Nevertheless, the schools that sat WASSCE for School Candidates, 2025, using the Computer-based mode were not affected by this error.”
WAEC said following the reviewed process, “the observable decline in the performance of candidates earlier announced was partly traceable to this absurd situation.”
“The Council sincerely apologises for this imbroglio and deeply regrets the emotional and mental dismay it might have caused the affected candidates and all stakeholders. We have been able to fix the anomaly, and candidates can now access their results on the portal (www.waecdirect.org),” Mr Dangut declared.
