The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dropped the curtain on the 2025 WASSCE for school candidates, and the results make for grim reading.
Despite claims of progress, success rates appear mired in mediocrity.
In 2024, private candidates posted just a 53.64 per cent pass rate – a sobering indicator that fewer than six in ten achieved five credits, including English and Mathematics.
Worse still, the Lagos State Government revealed that only 45.7 per cent of its sponsored public school pupils cleared those core subjects, igniting alarms over schooling standards.
Historical data confirms a roller-coaster trajectory: from a dismal 31.28 per cent pass in 2014 to a peak of 59.22 per cent in 2017, the climb has since plateaued.
This stagnation, coupled with rampant malpractice, underscores systemic rot.
In 2024 alone, WAEC annulled 4,108 subject results and entire certificates for 483 candidates caught with illicit materials, while withholding scores of others pending investigations.
In Monday’s statement via X, WAEC reassured stakeholders that results for 2025 “have officially been released today, Monday, August 4, 2025,” urging candidates to log on to waecdirect.org.
Yet critics argue that mere access to results will not plug the yawning gaps in teaching quality, school funding and exam integrity.
Dr. Samson Adesina, former education minister, warns:
“We risk producing graduates lacking critical skills if performance trends do not reverse.”
As families scramble to check their wards’ scores, policymakers face mounting pressure to confront an education system teetering on the brink.
Unless reforms tackle both pedagogy and punishment for malpractice, the WASSCE may remain a barometer of failure, not achievement.
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