2025 GCE Session : Improved Performance Recorded

Candidates who sat for the 2025 session of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) examinations across the country got a sigh of relieve since Friday August 1, 2025 following the publication of results. The results published through a communique read on the prime time English news cast on the National Radio Station of the State broadcaster (CRTV), was issued by the Minister of Secondary Education, Prof Nalova Lyonga and put an end of pre-publication anxiety and speculations that often engulf the examinations. 
According to statistics presented in the MINESEC communique, there is an increase of 14.66 per cent in the performance of candidates from 60.80 per cent in 2024 to 75.46 per cent in 2025. All the four examinations organised by the GCE Board recorded slight improvements.
At the GCE Ordinary Level, 78.56 per cent success was recorded as against 62.51 per cent in 2024. It gives a difference of 16.05 per cent increase in the performance pass. 
The GCE Advanced Level on the other hand, recorded a 78.56 per cent pass in 2025 as compared to 61.26 in 2024, thereby giving a difference of 18.11 per cent. 
For the TVEE Intermediate Level, 11, 803 candidates were declared successful out of 22,683 who actually sat for the examination, recording a 52.03 per cent pass compared to 49.37 per cent in 2024. At the TVEE Advanced Level, 71.19 per cent of the total number of 10,712 candidates who took the exam passed. Comparatively, TVEE Advance Level recorded an improvement of 8.79 per cent from the 62.39 per cent success rate recorded in 2024.  
Altogether, 213,360 candidates registered for all the four examinations with 200,159 actually sitting in for the exams in the entire country. ...