2025 WASSCE Results Reflect True Student Performance — GES

The Ghana Education Service (GES) has dismissed what it calls misleading claims surrounding the 2025 WASSCE results, insisting that the outcomes accurately reflect the academic performance of candidates.

This year’s results showed a notable drop in performance, with 6,295 candidates having their results cancelled for carrying foreign materials—including prepared notes, textbooks, and printed sheets—into examination halls. An additional 1,066 candidates (908 with withheld subject results and 158 with withheld full results) remain under investigation for various examination offences.

In a statement issued on Monday, December 1, 2025, the GES addressed growing public debate after former Education Minister Dr. Yaw Osei Adutwum reportedly criticised the Service, blaming the decline on poor management practices. GES urged the public to disregard what it described as comments aimed at “shifting focus from his own shortcomings” in overseeing examination processes during his tenure.

The Service also refuted claims that teachers’ allowances had been cancelled, noting that the Controller and Accountant-General’s Department had already clarified the cause of the delayed November payments.

GES stressed that the 2025 WASSCE was conducted under strict supervision, enhanced invigilation, and tighter security protocols, which led to the arrest and sanctioning of students and staff involved in malpractice.

“These efforts restored integrity to the examination process,” the statement noted, adding that the measures ensured that the results genuinely reflect candidates’ abilities.

Ahead of the examinations, both the Ministry of Education and GES issued clear warnings that any teacher or official caught aiding malpractice would face severe sanctions—a policy that was fully enforced nationwide.

GES further reminded students that Ghana will transition fully to the international WASSCE, written simultaneously by all West African countries, in May/June 2026. The Service encouraged candidates to prepare adequately and emphasised its resolve not to compromise examination integrity.

GES reaffirmed its commitment to collaborating with teachers, parents, communities, civil society organisations, and WAEC to strengthen teaching, learning, and the credibility of examinations.