Breaking: WAEC Finally Releases 2025 WASSCE Results, Shares Portal to Check
- WAEC has finally released the 2025 results for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE)
- The 2025 WASSCE was held for a period of nine weeks and two days spanning Thursday, April 24 to Friday, June 20
- Legit.ng reports that WAEC is Africa's foremost examination body which conducts examinations for youths in countries like Ghana, Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Gambia
Legit.ng journalist, Ridwan Adeola Yusuf, has over 9 years of experience covering education in Nigeria and worldwide.
Yaba, Lagos state - The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Monday, August 4, disclosed that young Nigerians who sat the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates can now check their results.
According to an update WAEC shared on its verified X (formerly Twitter) page, the WASSCE 2025 results has officially been released today, Monday, August 4, 2025.
Source: Facebook
"To access the result, log on to http://waecdirect.org."0
A total of 1,973,253 school candidates registered for the 2025 WAEC examinations. This figure includes 979,228 males and 994,025 females, according to WAEC, with the female candidates slightly outnumbering the males. 1,969,313 candidates sat the examination which was conducted in over 23,000 schools across the country.
How to check WAEC's WASSCE result 2025
Pick up a mobile phone or laptop and connect to the internet.
Go to log on to https://waecdirect.org and follow the instructions on the left hand side of the portal to check the results.
Not-too-good WAEC 2025 results
According to Premium Times, Amos Dangut, WAEC’s head of Nigeria office, disclosed that 1,718,090 candidates, representing 87.24 per cent of those who sat the WAEC 2025, obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects, with or without English Language and Mathematics.
However, only 754,545 candidates, representing 38.32 per cent, obtained credit and above in at least five subjects including English Language and Mathematics.
This shows a major drop from the 72.12 per cent recorded in the 2024 edition, indicating a 33.8 per cent decline in performance.
1.5 million WAEC results released
So far, the results of 1,517,517 candidates (77.06 per cent) have been fully processed and released, while 451,796 candidates (22.94 per cent) still have one or more subjects pending due to issues being resolved.
WAEC said it is working to release the outstanding results in the coming days.
FG 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 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.
Source: Legit.ng
