….Now 1,239,884 Candidates, 62.96%, Obtained 5 Credits In Maths, English
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released reviewed results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, 2025, after discovering a grading error in the English Language Objective Tests.
According to the Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, Dr. Amos Josiah Dangut, the error was caused by a wrongly used serialized code file in the printing of the English Language Objective Tests, which resulted in candidates being scored with wrong keys.
The reviewed results show that 1,794,821 candidates, representing 91.14%, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, while 1,239,884 candidates, representing 62.96%, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
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Of this number according to the HNO, 582,065 representing 46.95% were male candidates, while 657,819 representing 53.05% were female candidates. “A comparison of the percentage of candidates in this category in WASSCE for School 2024 and 2025, reveal that in this year’s (2025) WASSCE, there is 9.16% decrease in performance (that is, those who obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, was 72.12%.
WAEC apologized for the inconvenience caused by the error and is working to complete the processing of results for the remaining 205,916 candidates who have one or more subjects still being processed.
The Council has also withheld the results of 191,053 candidates in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice.
It should be recalled that WAEC in Nigeria on Monday, August 4, 2025, announced the release of results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, 2025 in which only 754,545 candidates, 38.32% Obtained 5 Credits in Mathematics and English.
According to the Council, 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 serialized papers and later announced that the Council embarked on an innovation (paper serialization) already deployed by a national examination body.
The HNO said: “The Council, being accountable, transparent and credible organization, further investigated all the serialized papers (Mathematics, English Language, Biology and Economics Objective Papers) and discovered that a serialized code file was wrongly used in the printing of English Language Objective Tests (Paper 3), which resulted in them been 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.
“Consequently, 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.
“The Management of the West African Examinations Council pleads with all stakeholders to pardon us at this moment. This is very difficult for us to say but we have to admit that it is very embarrassing.
“We acknowledge the emotional ordeal that candidates, parents, teachers, school administrators, Ministries of Education, the media and other well-meaning stakeholders must have had to deal with. This is a trying time for us at WAEC, we are doing everything we can to ensure that such dismal situation does not recur.
“The Management and entire Staff of the Council in Nigeria, wish to express our profound gratitude to the Government of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the Honourable Minister of Education, Minister of State for Education, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education and the various State Governments, for providing the enabling environment for us to navigate this hurdle and quagmire at this moment.
“We have been able to fix the anomaly and candidates can now access their reviewed results on the WAEC website, and those who have fulfilled their financial obligations can obtain their digital certificates 48 hours after checking their results online,” he said.
A total of 1,969,313 candidates sat the examination. The examination was also administered to candidates from some schools in Benin Republic, Cote d’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea, where the Nigerian, curriculum for Senior Secondary Schools is being used.
Also a total of 12,178 candidates with varying degrees of Special Needs registered for the examination.
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