WAEC has revised 2025 SSCE Results and 62.9% now pass with credits in English and Maths.
NewsOnline Nigeria reports that the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced a substantial upward revision in the number of candidates who secured credit passes in five key subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
In a statement released on Thursday, WAEC revealed that 1,239,884 candidates, representing 62.9% of the 1,969,313 candidates who sat for the exam, now meet the benchmark for tertiary admission an improvement from the initially recorded 754,545 candidates or 38.32%.
ALSO: Nurses’ Strike: A Wake-Up Call to Nigeria’s Failed Leadership – Festus Edovia
The revised figure follows the correction of errors in the marking of serialized objective questions, which had significantly skewed the initial computation of results.
“After a thorough technical review, discrepancies in the objective scoring system were discovered and corrected, leading to the updated pass rate,” the council noted.
This adjustment is particularly significant for candidates eyeing admission into Nigerian universities, where credit-level passes in English Language and Mathematics are mandatory.
Parents, Educators React to Initial Mass Failure
The initial result release, which indicated a pass rate of just 38.32%, sparked outrage among parents, teachers, and education advocates.
Members of the Concerned Parents and Educators Network (CPE) expressed deep dissatisfaction, citing administrative lapses by WAEC during the conduct of the English Language exam.
One widely circulated comment by Adegoke Bimpe Atoke read:
“Almighty WAEC has done it again. The pregnancy of a few months ago has finally given birth—mass failure in Mathematics and English. 450-word essays written with phone torchlights at 10:30 p.m. under the rain, with candidates swatting mosquitoes. How did we arrive here?”
She and others called for an urgent reform of Nigeria’s examination system, including a potential overhaul of WAEC’s operating structure.
Calls for Reform Grow Louder
The backlash has renewed conversations about the need for systemic reform in Nigeria’s education sector, with stakeholders questioning whether WAEC remains fit for purpose in its current form.
While WAEC has now corrected the errors and improved the results, many still demand accountability and transparency to ensure such lapses do not recur.
