The West African Examinations Council has restored access to the results portal for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates after a technical disruption and a major error in the grading of some subjects.
In a statement on Saturday, WAEC said candidates can now check and recheck their results. “The result portal is up again, candidates can now access, check and recheck their result for WASSCE (SC), 2025. Once again we apologize for the mishap and appreciate your understanding and support,” the council said.
The disruption followed what WAEC described as a serious mistake in the marking of serialised papers, which the council admitted had misrepresented the performance of many candidates. Speaking at a press briefing on Friday at the council’s national office in Yaba, Lagos, Head of WAEC Nigeria, Dr Amos Dangut, said the problem was caused by a wrongly assigned serialised code file.
“With deep sorrow and regret, I, on behalf of the Registrar to Council, Management and Staff of WAEC Nigeria, apologise for the discrepancies discovered in the grading of serialised papers,” Dangut said. “This is very difficult for us to say, but we have to admit that it is very embarrassing.”
He explained that the council introduced a new security measure known as paper serialisation, also used by another national examination body. During reviews, WAEC found that the English Language Objective Test (Paper 3) was scored with incorrect answer keys because of the wrong serialised code. Mathematics, Biology, and Economics were also serialised, though the marking error affected only English Paper 3.
“This resulted in them being marked with incorrect answer keys. It is important to note that candidates who wrote the exams using the computer-based mode were not affected,” Dangut said.
After correcting the error, WAEC reported that 1,794,821 candidates, representing 91.14 per cent, obtained credit and above in at least five subjects, with or without English and Mathematics. A total of 1,239,884 candidates, or 62.96 per cent, had five credits including English and Mathematics, an increase from the earlier figure of 38.32 per cent but a 9.16 per cent drop from 2024’s performance.
Of those who made five credits including English and Mathematics, 657,819 (53.05 per cent) were female and 582,065 (46.95 per cent) were male.
In all, 1,969,313 candidates sat for the examination, including students from schools in Benin Republic, Côte d’Ivoire, and Equatorial Guinea using the Nigerian curriculum. WAEC also catered to 12,178 special needs candidates, including the visually impaired (112), hearing impaired (615), physically challenged (37), and spastic or mentally challenged (52).
