WAEC Withdraws 2025 WAEC Results After Technical Glitches

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has temporarily withdrawn the 2025 WASSCE results following multiple reports of technical glitches during the exam.

On Monday, the examination body released the 2025 results, which showed that only 38.32 per cent of the 1,969,313 candidates who sat the 2025 WASSCE obtained credits and above in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, the worst performance recorded in a decade.

This development has sparked outrage, raising similarities with the glitch issue which affected candidates during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB). In a notice issued by the Acting Head of Public Affairs for WAEC in Nigeria, Mrs Moyosola Adesina, on Thursday, it was revealed that an internal review showed that there were some issues.

The body said these issues arose from a newly introduced paper serialisation process aimed at curbing exam malpractice in subjects such as Mathematics, English Language, Biology, and Economics. “[WAEC] sincerely regrets to inform the general public of technical issues discovered during the internal review of the recently released results of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for School Candidates, (SC) 2025. As part of our efforts to curb examination malpractice, the Council embarked on an innovation (paper serialisation) already deployed by a national examination body. It is also worth noting that this is in line with best assessment practices. The paper serialisation was carried out in Mathematics, English Language, Biology and Economics. However, an internal post result release procedure revealed some technical bugs in the results,” the statement said.

As a result of the glitches, access to the results has been temporarily suspended on the result checker portal while corrections are made. WAEC apologised to all affected candidates and the general public, urging patience and understanding. Candidates are advised to re-check their results after 24 hours, as the Council works to resolve the problem with urgency and transparency.