WAEC Orders Recheck of 2025 WASSCE Results After Shock Discovery

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By Johnson Folarin

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has issued an urgent directive to all candidates of the 2025 school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) to recheck their results within the next 24 hours on its official portal.

News Alert reported that this came in a Thursday statement by WAEC spokesperson, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina, following rising concerns over the accuracy of the recently released results.

“Candidates who have already checked their results should log in again after 24 hours to reconfirm their scores,” the Council said, reassuring its commitment to “excellence, fairness, and transparency” in its assessment process.

Alarming Drop in Performance

Earlier, WAEC had revealed that only 38.32% of the 1,969,313 candidates who took the exam secured credit passes in five core subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

This figure represents a 33.8% plunge from the 72.12% recorded in the previous year, a sharp drop that sparked nationwide reactions from educators, parents, and policymakers.

Stakeholders have blamed the poor outcome on several factors, ranging from inadequate student preparation to possible lapses in WAEC’s grading system.

Technical Glitches After Internal Review

In its latest explanation, WAEC disclosed that technical issues were uncovered during a post-release internal review, leading to the temporary shutdown of the result-checking portal.

The Council traced the glitches to the introduction of paper serialisation, a new anti-malpractice innovation already in use by another national examination body. This method was deployed in Mathematics, English Language, Biology, and Economics papers.

While the innovation was designed to protect the integrity of assessments, WAEC admitted it unintentionally triggered errors in the published results.

Access Temporarily Suspended for Correction

“We discovered certain bugs in the data after release, hence we have disabled access to the WASSCE 2025 results to conduct urgent corrections,” WAEC stated.

The Council apologised to candidates and stakeholders for the disruption and assured that normal access would be restored within 24 hours.

Students who have already seen their results are advised to revisit the portal after the stated period to confirm their scores.

“We remain committed to the highest standards of professionalism and integrity in serving the Nigerian child,” the statement concluded.