GCE2023· Scholar SC030C

WAEC GCE Nov/Dec 2023 — 44.29% Pass Rate

WAEC GCE (Private) Nov/Dec 2023

The record · educational context

44.29% pass rate in the 2023 Nov/Dec GCE — an improvement over 2022 but still below pre-COVID levels. GCE is offered twice yearly: First Series (Jan/Feb) and Second Series (Nov/Dec). It serves as the main route for private candidates and school leavers to obtain WAEC qualification.

Subjects

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Record

Exam

GCE

Year

2023

Position

WAEC GCE (Private) Nov/Dec 2023

Score

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School

[65,000+ candidates]

State

Various

Sources

WAEC Nigeria official; Tribune Online 2025

https://tribuneonlineng.com/waec-releases-novdec-2024-exam-results-records-53-64-pass/

National education context · 2023

What it took to pass that exam

The realities — political, fiscal, infrastructural — under which Nigerian candidates wrote this examination.

Federal Minister of Education

Mallam Adamu Adamu

2015–2023

Longest-serving Fourth Republic education minister (Buhari, both terms). Tenure includes the record 2020–2022 ASUU strikes (universities shut ~9 months in 2022) and >18m out-of-school children by 2022.

Federal education budget

₦1.79 trillion

8.2% of total · ₦21.83 trillion federal

Largest nominal allocation to date; still below the UNESCO 15–20% benchmark.

Source: Federal Government 2023 Appropriation Act; BudgIT

https://yourbudgit.com

State education budget · Various

Various state education budget for 2023 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

JAMBMajor Mmesoma Ejikeme result-manipulation controversy. JAMB confirmed her real score was 249, not the 362/400 she circulated. National conversation about result integrity followed.
Source: JAMB Press Release; Premium Times (June 2023)
https://www.premiumtimesng.com

Global body response

UNESCO
Nigeria ranked among the worst-performing on the SDG 4 (Quality Education) tracker in West Africa.
Source: UNESCO GEM Report 2023

Nigeria's global education ranking

Ranking record for this year being compiled.

The kids passed in spite of these realities. The record stands so that the cost of their achievement is not lost.

Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Redline

Wikipedia is never a source.