2025 WASCCE: 61.68% candidates fail English, Mathematics

61.68 per cent of candidates have failed English and Mathematics in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates.

This was disclosed after the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) revealed that 754,545 candidates, representing 38.32 per cent, obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, in the 2025 WASSCE.

The Head of WAEC Nigeria, Dr Amos Dangut, disclosed this while announcing the release of the 2025 WASSCE results at a press conference in Lagos on Monday, August 4, 2025.

Dangut said: “Of this number, 347,192, representing 46.01 per cent, were male candidates, while 407,353, representing 53.99 per cent, were female candidates.

“A comparison of the percentage of candidates in this category in WASSCE for School 2024 and 2025 reveals that in this year’s (2025) WASSCE, there is 33.8 per cent decrease in performance.”

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The WAEC boss also disclosed that the results of 192,089 candidates, representing 9.75 per cent of the total number of candidates, were withheld over various reported cases of malpractice.

He added that 1,973,365 candidates registered for the examination from 23,554 recognised secondary schools in Nigeria, but 1,969,313 candidates sat for the examination.

Dangut said: “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.

“Of the total number of 1,969,313 candidates that sat for the examination, 976,787 were males while 992,526 were females, representing 49.60 per cent and 50.40 per cent, respectively.”

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