The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has corrected errors in the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results, announcing that 1,239,884 candidates — 62.96% of the 1,969,313 who sat the exam — obtained credit passes in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The new figure marks a significant improvement from the earlier announcement, which recorded only 754,545 candidates, or 38.32%, as meeting the same benchmark.
Speaking at a press briefing in Lagos, WAEC’s Head of National Office, Amos Dangut, admitted that the Council had made mistakes in processing the results, particularly in the handling of serialised objective papers for some subjects.
He explained that a wrong serialised code file was used in printing the English Language Objective Test (Paper 3), which led to the scripts being marked with incorrect answer keys. Subjects affected included Mathematics, English Language, Biology, and Economics objective papers. However, candidates who took the exams in computer-based mode were not affected.
“Consequently, the observable decline in performance earlier announced was partly traceable to this absurd situation. The Council sincerely apologises for this imbroglio and deeply regrets the emotional and mental dismay it might have caused the affected candidates and stakeholders,” Dangut said.
He confirmed that the error had been rectified and that candidates could now access their revised results via the WAEC portal (http://waecdirect.org).