Breaking: WASSCE Result Portal Up Again as WAEC Sends Fresh Message to Candidates
- The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has reviewed the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate (WASSCE) results
- WAEC apologised for the errors and urged WASSCE 2025 candidates to check their results
- The examination body assured candidates and the public that measures are being put in place to prevent a recurrence
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Yaba, Lagos state - The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Friday night, August 8, disclosed that the result portal is up again.
WAEC said candidates can now access, check and recheck their West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) 2025 results.
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The portal, https://waecdirect.org, had crashed "due to technical issues".
WAEC said via its official X (formerly Twitter) handle:
"The result portal is up again, candidates can now access, check and recheck their results for the WASSCE (SC), 2025.
"Once again, we sincerely apologise for the mishap and appreciate your understanding and support.
"Thank you."
Snapshot of WASSCE 2025
The 2025 school candidates (May/June) results, released by the examination on Monday, August 4, made a record as the worst WASSCE performance in more than a decade.
The 2025 result revealed that only 38 per cent of the candidates secured at least a credit in five subjects, including English and Mathematics, a prerequisite for admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
Nigeria only had a record this low in 2014 when only 29.27 per cent of the candidates obtained credit in at least five subjects, including English and Mathematics. The 2014 result itself was better than those of 2013 and 2012.
However, the pass rate has improved from 65 per cent in 2020, 81 per cent in 2021, 76 per cent in 2022, 79 per cent in 2023 and 72 per cent in the 2024 edition of the examination.
Concerning trend in education in Nigeria
With this update, WAEC joined the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in admitting that technical glitches affect candidates’ results.
JAMB faced immense public criticism earlier in 2025 after it found that glitches affected candidates’ Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scores.
Since the WASSCE results were released, the examination body has faced criticism from the public, accusing it of toying with the future of the young students.
Success in both the WASSCE and UTME is a prerequisite for consideration for admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
Nigeria to shift WAEC exam to CBT
Earlier, Legit.ng reported that the federal government revealed plans to utilise both privately owned and public computer-based testing (CBT) centres across the country to conduct the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) starting in 2026.
Education minister, Tunji Alausa, disclosed this after observing a trial run of the CBT for SSCE conducted by the National Examination Council (NECO) at Sascon International School in Abuja, the Nigerian capital city.
Alausa praised NECO for executing the CBT SSCE pilot phase smoothly and announced plans to relocate future school-based SSCEs to designated CBT centres outside school premises.
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