The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has advised candidates who sat for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and have already checked their results to revisit the portal after 24 hours. This follows the discovery of a technical issue during an internal review of the released results.
In a statement issued on Thursday by the Acting Head of Public Affairs at WAEC, Moyosola Adesina, the Council acknowledged the existence of technical bugs linked to a recently introduced innovation aimed at curbing examination malpractice.
“As part of our efforts to curb examination malpractice, the Council embarked on an innovation (paper serialization)… However, an internal post-result release procedure revealed some technical bugs in the results,” the statement read.
WAEC noted that paper serialization, a technique already adopted by another national examination body—was implemented in key subjects including Mathematics, English Language, Biology, and Economics. However, this innovation led to unexpected glitches in the released results.
To address the issue, WAEC has temporarily disabled access to the 2025 WASSCE results on its result-checking portal and commenced an urgent review process to correct the anomalies.
“The Council, being a responsive body that is sensitive to fairness and professionalism, has decided to urgently review and correct the technical glitches… access to the WASSCE (SC) 2025 results has been temporarily denied on the result checker portal,” the statement added.
Affected candidates and stakeholders are urged to remain patient, as the Council has promised to resolve the matter within 24 hours. “We extend our deep and sincere apologies to all affected candidates and the general public… Candidates who have previously checked their results are advised to re-check after 24 hours from now.”
WAEC reiterated its commitment to excellence, fairness, and transparency in its assessment processes.
The 2025 WASSCE results were officially released on Monday. Out of the 1,973,365 candidates who registered from 23,554 secondary schools across Nigeria, 1,969,313 sat for the examination. However, only 38.32% of candidates obtained credit and above in at least five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics—a sharp decline from 72.12% recorded in 2024.
