Do You Know Signs That Show You May Fail the 2025 WASSCE? Can you tell if you are on your way to passing the WASSCE examination?
Do you know what to do to increase your chances of excelling in the WASSCE? Find all the answers in this informative post and be motivated to choose well and succeed.
The 2025 WASSCE starts on August 4th and ends on September 19th, 2025, yet this destiny-changing pathway to securing admission into tertiary institutions at home and abroad is not being taken seriously by some candidates.
While some candidates are working so hard to make the best grades, others are just not ready for the examination. For some of these candidates, the die is cast, and they will fail no matter what happens from now to the end of the examination.
But the question is, what are some of the signs that prove that a 2025 WASSCE candidate is ready for the examination or not? Whatever the signs, it is either the candidates pass and reap the rewards or fail and experience the pain associated with poor preparation, exam skills, and lack of focus.
What are the signs that a candidate will fail the 2025 WASSCE and regret it?
While there are many signs, we shall focus on the top relevant ones. If you are a WASSCE candidate who relates to the signs mentioned, you are most likely to underperform in the WASSCE and may fail in one or more papers.
No. 1: Not solving more pasco and likely exam questions
A student who has not solved at least 10 full sets of past WASSCE papers is likely to have challenges in the exam hall. While solving questions is part of your preparation, failure to solve WAEC past questions related to the respective subjects will negatively affect you in the exam hall. One of the reasons is that past papers really test your readiness and help you practice with exam-format questions. They sharpen your question-understanding and answering skills and super challenge you to revise even better. Unfortunately, there are many WASSCE candidates who have not consciously solved past papers, yet they are claiming to be candidates.
No. 2: Failure to master the act of teaching others
Students who fail or underperform during the WASSCE do not often teach others what they have learned as part of their revision routines. Teaching others is an amazing way to revise for the WASSCE. It offers you the chance to share with colleagues what you have learned to help them, but more importantly, it serves as one of the best revision strategies. Teaching others helps you to test your own understanding and ability to recollect and explain what you have learned so that you can better improve and reproduce the same facts or even better in the final WASSCE examination if such facts are needed as answers in the exam hall.
If you care to know, when you write answers in the exam hall, all you are doing is reteaching an examiner what you have been taught. Once you teach it well, you earn more marks. Why not practice the teaching with your friends now?
No. 3: Spending more time with phones and on social media than book
Students who will fail or underperform at the WASSCE are currently allowing their mobile phones and other electronic gadgets to occupy their time. Mobile phones and their associated social media can steal so much time from you. This means such candidates have less time to actually study. For some of these learners or candidates, the phone has become part of their daily routine; hence, they have it with them throughout the day and fidget with it for fun and play instead of focusing on their books.
No. 4: No mastering the question understanding, reading and poor answering skills
Failure to practice how to answer questions, failure to master the skill of reading through answers, and failure to answer questions fully have become the habits of many poor-performing students who sit the WASSCE every year. While serious students are working on these qualities, others are doing nothing about it, although they know they have these weaknesses.
No. 5: Failure to deal with Core subject weaknesses
Some students have problems when it comes to core subjects (English Language, Social Studies, Mathematics, and Integrated Science). Many are weak in Integrated Science and Mathematics. They are very much aware of the reality, yet they are doing nothing about it. Some WASSCE candidates are also doing just too little about their challenges in the core subjects.
Once you have a challenge with, say, Integrated Science and Mathematics, you must have taken proactive steps by now to improve your understanding, increase practice, and seek help by now. Such students know very well that their Integrated Science and Mathematics will create problems and hinder their success at the WASSCE, yet they are just doing nothing about it.
Bonus sign of failure ahead of the WASSCE: Planning for Apor.
Students who will fail the WASSCE often consider the chances of cheating in the final exam. They plan it, prepare for it, and practice what they will do in the final examination. When the examination is due, they execute the plan. Unfortunately, many are caught; others get fake questions and answers, which they rely on so much only to fail the final examination. If you are planning to cheat in the WASSCE, you are already getting ready to fail.
The above are the very top facts that suggest that some students will fail the 2025 WASSCE. If one or more of the issues discussed relate to you, it is not too late to take steps to deal with them.
For instance, you can start putting your phone off or leave it at home when studying or going for prep. You can start making conscious efforts to solve past WASSCE questions in each subject. You can face your weak core subjects head-on and start super serious revision; seek help from friends who are good in those subjects, among others.
However, if you want to fail the 2025 WASSCE, do not hesitate to make the wrong choices.