WAEC releases revised 2025 WASSCE results

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released reviewed results for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates.

The Head of National Office, WAEC, Dr. Amos Dangut, announced the release of the reviewed results at a press conference in Lagos on Friday, August 8, 2025.

Dangut explained that WAEC discovered that a wrong serialised code file was used in printing the English Language Objective Paper.

Dangut said this led to the use of incorrect marking keys.

This error, the WAEC official said, partly accounted for the sharp decline in performance earlier reported, adding that schools using the Computer-Based mode were unaffected.

According to him, in the corrected results, 1,239,884 candidates, representing 62.96 per cent, obtained credits in at least five subjects including English Language and Mathematics, compared to the previously announced 38.32 per cent.

He stated: “In total, 1,794,821 candidates or 91.14 per cent secured credits in at least five subjects with or without English and Mathematics.

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“The results of 191,053 candidates, representing 9.7 per cent of the total, remain withheld over various cases of examination malpractice, which are under investigation.”

While apologising for the error, the WAEC boss described the state of affairs as a trying time for the management at WAEC.

Dangut added: “We are doing everything we can to ensure that such dismal situation does not recur.

“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.”

He urged candidates to go back and access their corrected results on WAEC website and apply for their digital certificates 48 hours later.

He called on states owing WAEC to settle their debts promptly, so that results of affected candidates could be released.

WAEC had earlier released the results of the 2025 WASSCE on August 4.

A total of 1,969,313 candidates sat for the examination, comprising 976,787 males (49.60 per cent) and 992,526 females (50.40 per cent).

Following the release, WAEC discovered discrepancies in the grading of serialised objective papers, particularly in the English Language Objective Test (Paper 3), where a wrong serialised code file had been used during printing.

This error, which did not affect computer-based test centres, contributed to the earlier reported decline in candidates’ performance.

WAEC later announced the review of the results, apologising to candidates, parents, schools, and stakeholders for the distress caused.

The Star