The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has issued an advisory to all candidates who participated in the 2025 school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), urging them to recheck their results on the official portal within the next 24 hours.
This announcement was made on Thursday through a statement from the Council’s spokesperson, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina, in response to increasing concerns regarding the accuracy of the recently released examination results.
“Accordingly, candidates who have previously accessed their results are encouraged to recheck after 24 hours from the present time.
“WAEC remains committed to maintaining excellence, fairness, and transparency in all our assessment processes,” the statement articulated.
Earlier, WAEC announced that only 38.32% of the 1,969,313 candidates who sat for the examinations achieved credit passes in five core subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. This figure represents a significant decline of 33.8% from the 72.12% reported in the previous year.
The decrease triggered nationwide responses, with various stakeholders attributing it to multiple factors, including students’ preparedness and alleged shortcomings in WAEC’s assessment system.
In addressing these concerns, WAEC disclosed that technical issues were identified during a post-release internal review, which necessitated the temporary suspension of access to the result-checking portal.
The statement indicated, “WAEC sincerely regrets to inform the general public of technical issues discovered during the internal review of the recently released results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates (SC) 2025.”
The Council elaborated that the technical glitches were associated with the implementation of a new innovation, paper serialization, aimed at combating examination malpractice. This system has already been adopted by a national examination body and was applied in subjects such as Mathematics, English Language, Biology, and Economics.
“An internal post-result release review revealed certain inconsistencies in the data,” WAEC noted, clarifying that, while this initiative was intended to uphold integrity in assessments, it inadvertently resulted in errors in the published outcomes.
“In light of this, the Council has temporarily disabled access to the WASSCE 2025 results on its portal to facilitate an urgent review and correction of the identified discrepancies,” WAEC stated. WAEC expressed regret regarding this situation and offered apologies to all candidates and stakeholders affected by the disruption, assuring the public of a prompt resolution within the next 24 hours.
Candidates who have already accessed their results are now advised to revisit the portal after 24 hours to verify the accuracy of their scores.
“WAEC remains steadfast in its commitment to excellence, fairness, and transparency in all its processes. We appreciate the public’s patience and understanding as we endeavor to resolve this matter with the professionalism that is expected of us.
“Thank you for continuously placing your trust in our integrity and confidence in our ability to deliver quality service to the Nigerian student,” the statement concluded.