Controversy surrounding the conduct of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) may not yet be over, as the examination body has recalled the results released on Monday.
The body said it had identified glitches in the processes that led to the compilation of results earlier released, and shut down the result checker portal.
In a statement by its Acting Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, WAEC noted that the subjects affected in the process were those it “serialised,” which are Mathematics, English Language, Biology, and Economics.
The statement reads in part: “The West African Examinations Council 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.
“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 development has forced the council to urgently review and correct the technical glitches that led to the situation.
“As a result, access to the WASSCE (SC) 2025 results has been temporarily denied on the result checker portal.”
The examination body has, therefore, requested that candidates who had previously checked their results should disregard what they currently hold and return to the site within the next 24 hours to check again for updated results.
As earlier reported by BoldScholar news, WAEC had, on Monday, released the results for WASSCE 2025, with merely 38.32 percent of 1,969,313 candidates, who sat the examination, securing pass grades of credits in five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
The poor performance may not be unconnected to the logistics problem encountered by the examination body during the conduct of the examination in May, when students were kept at centres late into the night.
The Head of Nigeria Office (HNO) of WAEC, Amos Dangut, who spoke at a media briefing, said out of the 1,969,313 candidates who sat the examination, only 754,545 candidates, representing 38.32 per cent, secured credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.
A similar situation had befallen the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) a few months ago when it released results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
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