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GCE2022· Scholar SC030D

WAEC GCE Nov/Dec 2022 — 42.16% Pass Rate

WAEC GCE (Private) Nov/Dec 2022

The record · educational context

42.16% pass rate in the 2022 Nov/Dec GCE — the lowest of the 2022–2024 cohort. Reflects ongoing challenges in private candidate preparation post-COVID.

Subjects

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Record

Exam

GCE

Year

2022

Position

WAEC GCE (Private) Nov/Dec 2022

Score

N/A

School

[Approximately 60,000+ candidates]

State

Various

Sources

WAEC Nigeria; Tribune Online 2025

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

National education context · 2022

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

₦923.79 bn (universities, basic & technical combined)

5.4% of total · ₦17.13 trillion federal

Still below UNESCO 15% benchmark. ASUU strike ran February–October 2022.

Source: BudgIT 2022 Federal Budget Analysis

https://yourbudgit.com

State education budget · Various

Various state education budget for 2022 being compiled. Cross-reference the State Appropriation Acts.

Exam-year incidents

  • WAECWASSCE held under power-supply disruptions in many states. ASUU strike (Feb–Oct 2022) closed federal universities for ~9 months, paralysing the admissions cycle for that year's candidates.

    Source: Punch; ThisDay 2022

    https://punchng.com
  • JAMB1.76 million candidates wrote UTME 2022. Multiple CBT centre power outages reported.

    Source: JAMB 2022 Policy Meeting

    https://www.jamb.gov.ng

Global body response

No documented international body response on file for this year.

Nigeria's global education ranking

  • UNESCO out-of-school children

    Nigeria with over 20 million out-of-school children — the highest figure globally at that time.

    Source: UNESCO Institute for Statistics 2022

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.