File photo of students taking the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE)
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), in a statement issued on Saturday, August 23, 2025, released the provisional results of the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).
The statement indicated that official copies of the results of school candidates will be dispatched to their respective schools through their Metropolitan/Municipal/District Directors of Education.
However, the results are now available on WAEC’s official website at www.waecgh.org.
Candidates will require a PIN, which they are to purchase, in order to access their results online.
Candidates who wish to access their results online are to log on to the website and click the results section.
After clicking the results section, candidates are to select ‘Results Checker’.
After placing the cursor on the ‘Results Checker’, a pop-up menu with a list of examination results, including “BECE SCHOOL/PRIVATE”, will appear.
Click on “BECE SCHOOL/PRIVATE” to enter your examination details and PIN to access your results.
<>Breakdown of the 2025 BECE
A total of 603,328 candidates, comprising 297,250 males and 306,078 females from 20,395 participating schools, entered for the school examination.
This included 72 candidates with visual impairment, 239 with hearing impairment, and 161 candidates with other test accommodation needs.
The examination was conducted at 2,237 centres across the country.
Out of the total number, 2,526 candidates were absent.
Examination malpractices
Following the completion of investigations into a number of irregularities detected during the conduct of the examination and marking of scripts, the 36th Meeting of the Final Awards and Examiners’ Appointment Committee for the BECE 2025, held on Friday, August 15, 2025, approved the following:
Cancellation of subject results of 718 candidates;
Cancellation of entire results of 177 candidates;
Withholding of subject results of 1,240 candidates;
Withholding of entire results of 93 candidates.
In addition, the subject results of some candidates from 119 schools have been cancelled.
The subject results of some candidates from 87 schools have also been withheld for further scrutiny.
BAI
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