WAEC Revises 2025 SSCE Results, English, Maths Pass Rate Rises to 62.9%
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced a major upward revision of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results, significantly increasing the number of candidates who obtained credit passes in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
Following the review, 1,239,884 candidates—representing 62.9% of the 1,969,313 who sat for the examination—now meet the benchmark for admission into tertiary institutions. This marks a sharp rise from the initial figure of 754,545 candidates, or 38.32%, recorded when the results were first released earlier in the week.
WAEC attributed the improvement to the correction of errors in the marking of serialized objective questions, which had distorted the original computation of scores.
Initially, only 38.32% of candidates were recorded as having obtained credit-level passes in both English and Mathematics—two core requirements for university admission in Nigeria.
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The earlier release had triggered widespread criticism from parents and education stakeholders, many of whom accused WAEC of procedural lapses during the conduct of the English Language paper. Members of the Concerned Parents and Educators Network (CPE) alleged that some candidates sat for the paper at night under poor conditions.
In a post on the CPE platform, Adegoke Bimpe Atoke expressed outrage:
“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 a phone torchlight at 10:30 pm under the rain, with candidates swatting mosquitoes. How did we arrive here?
Our systems need drastic, strategic, urgent reforms. If WAEC is not working and has lost relevance, can we have something else? A better mechanism that addresses our realities as a country.”
The revision is expected to ease tension among affected candidates and parents, while also renewing calls for systemic reforms in the conduct and management of national examinations.
By PRNigeria
