'Explain the sharp decline in WASSCE results' - NPP's Lawuratu to education ministry

A member of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) communication team, Lawuratu Musah-Saaka, has urged the Ministry of Education to provide clear explanations for the sharp decline in performance recorded in the 2025 WASSCE core subjects.

Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana on Monday, December 1, 2025, Musah-Saaka said the ministry must account for the sudden drop in student performance within just a year.

“Let Ghanaians know what the issues really are,” emphasising that the trend is too alarming to be left unexplained.

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She also called for the regional breakdown of the results to enable the public to better understand where the challenges are most pronounced.

Her comments come in the wake of the release of the provisional 2025 WASSCE results, which show a significant rise in the number of candidates who failed the core subjects outright.

Data released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) shows a sharp surge in the failure rate (Grade F9) across all four core subjects compared to the 2024 results.

The percentage of candidates who failed Core Mathematics nearly quadrupled, rising from 6.10% in 2024 to 26.77% in 2025.

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The failure rate for Social Studies also almost tripled, increasing from 9.55% in 2024 to 27.50% in 2025.

The massive jump in F9 grades signals a major downturn in foundational knowledge among the 461,736 candidates who sat for the examination.

Core Mathematics recorded the steepest rise, with the failure rate increasing by 20.67 percentage points, meaning nearly one in every four candidates failed the subject outright.

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