WAEC grading system 2017-2018

Wednesday, January 10, 2018 at 10:22 AM by Adrianna Simwa

Exams season can be a very stressful time for everyone involved. What can make it even more stressful is not knowing how many scores you need to have to get in order to pass WAEC; and not just pass alone, but with good grades. Therefore, we have decided to make the lives of Nigerian prospective students a little bit easier by sharing the WAEC grading system 2017-2018. Find out what the pass and failure grades are according to the WAEC Nigeria.

New WAEC grading system

WAEC grading system is not that much different from any other grading system that exists out there in the world. Nevertheless, you should take a moment to learn a little bit more about it.

Here is how the most recent WAEC grading system works:

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The worst grade you can get is F9. It means that you have scored 39% or less on your exam. It is a failure grade.
E8 (40-44%) and D7 (45-49%) are passing grades.
C6 (50-54%), C5 (55-59%) and C4 (60-64%) are credit grades.
B3 (65-69%) is a Good grade.
B2 (70-74%) is a Very Good grade.
A1 (75-100%) is an Excellent grade.

Old WAEC grading system

In case you did not know, there was another WAEC grading system that had been in use since 1992. This is what it used to look like:

If you got 39% or less on your exams, your mark would have been F9, which meant that you failed.
40-44% gave you E8, and 45-49% gave you D7, which were both passing grades.
50-54% gave you C6, 55-59% gave you C5, and 60-64% gave you C4. Each of these grades meant that you earned Credit.
65-69% gave you B3, which was Good.
70-79% gave you B2, which was Very Good.
If you managed to score 80-100% on your exams, you would have received A1, which (for some reason) was called Congratulations.

As you can see, the new system is slightly more lax in terms of giving out A1 grades. At 75%, you can get the Excellent grade, whereas before it had to be at least 80%.