JUST IN: WASSCE 2025: ONLY 38.32% PASS ENGLISH, MATHEMATICS, WITH FIVE CREDITS

WAEC 2025 performance

West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination 2025 says: ONLY 38.32% pass English, Mathematics, with five credits

Out of a total of 1,969,313 candidates who sat the examination across 23,554 schools, only 754,545 candidates representing 38.32 per cent obtained a minimum of five credits, including English Language and Mathematics. This marks a significant 33.8 per cent drop from the 72.12 per cent recorded in 2024

Speaking at a press briefing on Monday, August 4, 2025, at WAEC’s national headquarters in Yaba, Lagos, the Head of Nigeria National Office, Dr Amos Dangut, attributed the drop in performance to the Council’s new approach of serialising objective test papers in key subjects such as English, Mathematics, Biology, and Economics.

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Of the total candidates, 1,517,517 (77.06 per cent) had their results fully processed and released, while 451,796 (22.94 per cent) are still being processed due to technical issues, which WAEC assured would be resolved in the coming days.

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