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.
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.
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