08/08/2025
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has admitted errors in the results released early in the week with respect to this yearβs Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE, saying 1,239,884 candidates now have credit passes in five subjects or more, including English Language and Mathematics.
The new figure represents 62.9% of the 1,969,313 candidates who sat for the examination.
Also, the new figure is much better than the initial figure of 754,545, or 38.32% of the number of candidates said to have credit passes in five or more subjects, including English and mathematics, in previously announced results.
Briefing the press in Lagos on Friday evening, the Head of the National Office of WAEC, Dr Amos Dangut, admitted some lapses on the part of the Council, especially regarding the serialised questions in objective papers of some subjects.
The Council, being an accountable, transparent and credible organisation, further investigated all the serialised papers (Mathematics, English Language, Biology and Economics Objective Papers) and discovered that a serialised code file was wrongly used in the printing of English Language Objective Tests (Paper 3), which resulted in them being scored with the wrong keys. Nevertheless, the schools that sat WASSCE for School Candidates, 2025, using the computer-based mode were not affected by this error.
