The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has rectified errors in this year’s Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) results, revealing that 1,239,884 candidates — 62.9% of the 1,969,313 who took the exam — secured credit passes in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The revised figure is significantly higher than the earlier announcement, which recorded 754,545 candidates, or 38.32%, as meeting the same benchmark.
Addressing journalists in Lagos, WAEC’s Head of National Office, Amos Dangut, acknowledged lapses on the Council’s part, particularly with the handling of serialised questions in objective papers for some subjects.
“Gentlemen of the media, with deep sense of sorrow and regret, I, on behalf of the Registrar to Council, Management and Staff of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, welcome you to this press briefing to announce the reviewed results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, 2025 in Nigeria.
“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 being scored with the 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. We have been able to fix the anomaly, and candidates can now access their results on the portal (http://waecdirect.org). At this juncture, may I announce the accurate results obtained by candidates.
“1,239,884 candidates, representing 62.96%, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.”
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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has corrected errors in the results of this year’s Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE), announcing that 1,239,884 candidates, representing 62.9% of the 1,969,313 who… pic.twitter.com/IotV4J4mSq
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