WAEC is trending because the 2025 results has been released and WAEC took pride in the number of failures recorded.
1,214,768 out of 1,969,313 (61%) failed English and Mathematics. While only 754,545 (38.32%) passed.
Which is the highest failure rate since 2015.
But according to WAEC’s Head, Amos Dangut, the students failed because of their impeccable anti malpractice measures, new and advanced, which made it difficult for students to cheat.
This is however has been rejected by most Nigerians because, scholars who scored highly in jamb, scored A’s and B’s in subjects like Physics, Maths, Chemistry etc are weirdly scoring straight F9 in only English language.
Recall, the exams took place from April 24 to June 20, 2025.
On the 28th of May, students across the country wrote English Language exams up till 11pm — 1am due to WAEC’s logistics issues. Yet, WAEC failed to address the incident and instead took pride in the failure rate.
Alex Onyia suspects another foul play, just like JAMB.
WAEC Pass Rate Since 2015
2015 — 38.68%
2016 — 52.97%
2017 — 59.22%
2018 — 48.15%
2019 — 64.18%
2020 — 65.24%
2021 — 81.70%
2022 — 76.36%
2023 — 79.81%
2024 — 72.12%
2025 — 38.32%