WAEC releases results for 2025 WASSCE

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has officially released the results of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates.

This was contained in a statement issued on Monday.

The examination body announced that candidates who sat for the exam can now access their results online.

“WAEC is pleased to inform candidates who sat WASSCE for School Candidates, 2025 that the result has officially been released today, Monday, August 4, 2025,” the statement read.

Candidates have been advised to log on to the Council’s official result portal at http://waecdirect.org to check their results using their examination details and result checker pins.

Meanwhile, the council’s Head of Nigeria Office, Amos Dangut, said the 2025 WASSCE recorded a 33.8 per cent decrease in the results of the overall number of candidates compared to the results in 2024.

Briefing newsmen in Lagos, Dangut said there was decline in the percentage of those who obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics.

“A comparison of the percentage of candidates in this category in WASSCE for School 2024 and 2025, reveal that in this year’s (2025) WASSCE, there is 33.8% decrease in performance (that is, those who obtained credit and above in a minimum of five (5) subjects, including English Language and Mathematics, was 72.12%),” he said.

The release of the 2025 WASSCE results comes after weeks of anticipation from students, parents, and schools across the country.

The exam was taken by 1,973,253 candidates from 23,554 approved secondary schools.