The University of Ghana (UG) has confirmed that it will uphold its admission cut-off points for the 2025/2026 academic year, despite the poor performance of many candidates in the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
The 2025 WASSCE recorded a major decline in results, with Core Mathematics experiencing the sharpest drop. A1–C6 passes fell from 305,132 in 2024 to 209,068 in 2025—a decline of over 96,000 passes. The overall pass rate was just 48.73%, leaving more thaan half of candidates below the grades required for tertiary education. Nearly one in four candidates failed both Core Mathematics and Social Studies, raising concerns about university eligibility for the coming academic year.
Speaking to Citi News on Tuesday, December 2, UG’s Pro Vice Chancellor, Prof. Gordon Awandare, said the university has received WAEC results from students who purchased awaiting results forms and will process them to admit deserving candidates.
However, Prof. Awandare urged students unlikely to meet the university’s cut-off points to consider re-sitting the WASSCE, stressing that UG’s admission requirements and cut-offs remain firm to uphold academic standards.
“At the University of Ghana, every year, we have many more students making the cut off but not getting the opportunity to be admitted because of the limited number of spaces.
“So, it is not likely that we will need to move the cut-off to get sufficient numbers for each programme. We will advise that if they really want to come to Legon, they should re-sit some of the papers and improve their aggregates and try again,” he stated.
