WAEC: Read what Nigerians are saying after English language paper is taken at night

After the mistake that happened during the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which affected immoderate 379,000 candidates, parents and Nigerians were hoping that the West African Examination Council (WAEC) would not look a akin challenge. Affected students were blessed that JAMB gave them a 2nd chance.

Students wrote WAEC English insubstantial astatine nighttime successful immoderate schools. Photo credit: Getty Images/Will & Deni McIntyre and WAEC.
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But caller media reports are making parents and Nigerians disquieted astir the result of the 2025 WAEC examination, fixed that immoderate papers are being written successful the nighttime with the assistance of torchlight.

From societal media posts to media publications, people are calling retired WAEC aft it was noticed that immoderate papers, peculiarly English language, were taken successful the night, and students reported location late.

Social media is replete with complaints from parents and relatives of students who are not lone disquieted astir however their wards volition execute but are besides frightened for the information of the students.

The English connection paper, taken connected Wednesday, May 28, received the loudest disapproval from Nigerians arsenic it appeared the nighttime docket affected galore schools.

Lady aggravated arsenic her sister returns precocious from school

Speaking successful a TikTok video, a woman identified as @therealklizz lamented that her younger sister returned location astatine adjacent to 10pm.

In her opinion, the information of the students should beryllium considered, and it mightiness beryllium hard for them to execute good if the nightly papers continue.

She said:

"This is 6 minutes to 10 and my sister is conscionable coming backmost from school. She is penning WAEC. Does this marque immoderate sense? Students were inactive penning WAEC insubstantial oregon introspection astatine past 9 O'clock successful the night. What is going connected with our acquisition strategy successful Nigeria? What is going on? My sister came backmost and she was saying that immoderate of her mates had to enactment implicit astatine their classmate's location due to the fact that they can't spell to their ain location due to the fact that it either not harmless for them, their country is not safe. What astir children whose parents don't person cars and don't person means of going to prime them successful the school? You guys are not adjacent talking astir however risky it is to beryllium penning exams astatine past 9' Oclock successful the night. What are they writing?"

More aggravated reactions flooded societal media arsenic radical said the students mightiness not execute good if they person to spell to schoolhouse and hold until nighttime for an introspection to commence.

Man says his sister returned by 10pm

Another Nigerian who reacted to the improvement with choler is Emmanuel Adebayo, who wondered erstwhile WAEC started conducting examinations astatine night.

He was shocked that his younger sister made it home by 10pm aft taking the English connection paper.

He had said connected X:

"My sister got location aft 10 PM yesterday from penning WAEC. Please, erstwhile did WAEC commencement conducting exams astatine night? What benignant of incompetence is this, risking the lives of children who person to spell location precocious astatine night?"

Viral video alleges different WAEC insubstantial was taken astatine night

It was not lone the English connection insubstantial that was written successful the night, arsenic determination person been societal media reports which alleged that different insubstantial was taken by students with the assistance of ta orchlight

A video that circulated on TikTok and different societal media platforms connected May 23 indicated that 1 schoolhouse successful Asaba besides took a insubstantial astatine night.

In the video, a voice could beryllium heard calling retired the invigilator and WAEC for bringing the insubstantial late.

The pistillate dependable that spoke successful the video said the insubstantial was expected to beryllium brought to the schoolhouse by 2pm, but alleged that the invigilator lone came by 6pm.

The dependable said:

"Even during my clip of lantern, we nary usage torchlight constitute WAEC. It's not okay! Paper that is expected to commencement by 2:000. they brought it by 6:00. No airy successful the school. He is utilizing torchlight to constitute WAEC successful unity exemplary schoolhouse Asaba, authorities capital, not successful a colony o! WAEC indispensable constitute exam by night. People are inactive writing, spot them now. Writing by night. This is wickedness. Writing exam by night. They are expected to bring this insubstantial by 2:00. They stayed till night. He is collecting their papers that they should go."

Experts talk connected the deployment of CBT for WAEC

Speaking connected the wide disapproval of WAEC, fashionable acquisition advocate, Alex Onyia, said determination is simply a request for important nationalist introspection bodies to beryllium fixed.

Experts are advocating the adoption of CBT for WAEC aft the precocious accomplishment of the English paper. Photo credit: Getty Images/Alys Tomlinson, TikTok/@rubricnaija and WAEC.
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Apart from introspection papers being taken astatine night, Alex said different occupation is that of introspection fraud perpetrated, allegedly by schools and students.

He said:

"I conducted a probe successful Benin past twelvemonth and recovered retired that majorly of the students driblet retired of ceremonial schools successful SS2 conscionable to articulation a acquisition centers to assistance them successful WAEC fraud. It’s casual to spot idiosyncratic with 5 distinctions including English Language and yet the idiosyncratic can’t marque a implicit sentence. No recognize of the taxable substance that he/she was awarded a favoritism on. We person truthful galore debased prime graduates due to the fact that they participated successful WAEC fraud and sorted their ways passim the assemblage years."

According to Alex, who is the CEO of Educare and who took portion successful the reappraisal of the mistake that happened during the 2025 UTME, WAEC request to follow much technologies successful handling its examination.

He said the introspection assemblage needs to deploy computer-based investigating to marque it easier to behaviour their exams.

His words:

"We request to reconstruct the integrity of our nationalist examinations. WAEC, NECO, and GCE request to measurement up. JAMB is already connected the close way but needs to radically amended their system. WAEC urgently needs to deploy CBT successful 2026. That unsocial should destruct implicit 60% of the fraud if done properly. We request to urgently hole these decays successful our acquisition system. Nigeria volition emergence again if our acquisition strategy is fixed urgently."

Another expert, Success Osaigbovo of Gifted Minds Lectures and Technologies, who is simply a teacher and who prepares students for WAEC and JAMB UTME, said it is clip for WAEC to deploy CBT.

He told Legit.ng:

"I enactment WAEC CBT-based 100℅ due to the fact that this volition eradicate introspection malpractice, which has been rampant each implicit the country. "

WAEC has since issued an apology and acknowledged that determination were logistical challenges during the English examination.

It said immoderate of the challenges arose owed to the effort deployed by the assemblage to forestall leakages successful introspection papers.

The assemblage said:

“While maintaining the integrity and information of our examination, we faced sizeable challenges chiefly owed to our large purpose of preventing leakage of immoderate paper. While we successfully achieved our objective, it inadvertently impacted the timeliness and seamless behaviour of the examination. Despite our champion efforts, we encountered logistical hurdles, information concerns and sociocultural factors that negatively influenced our operations. In bid to forestall aboriginal occurrences of this nature, the assembly is presently collaborating with information agencies. We recognise the value of timely behaviour of examinations and the interaction of this determination connected the candidates, their schools and parents, and we sincerely apologise for immoderate inconveniences caused."

Man challenges niece to bash good successful WAEC

Earlier, Legit.ng reported that a Nigerian antheral has said he is going to give his niece a currency acquisition of N2 cardinal if she does good successful the 2025 WAEC.

The man, Niyi Omotoso, shared his ain WAEC effect showing helium scored A1 successful 7 WAEC subjects erstwhile helium wrote successful 2011.

He said if his niece could decorativeness the 2025 WAEC and instrumentality location with a amended result, she would get the immense currency reward.

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Source: Legit.ng