• Over 69 per cent make English,
Mathematics
AFTER six years of dismal
performance by its candidates, the
National Examinations Council
(NECO) Wednesday announced that
52.29 percent of persons who sat for
this year’s June/July Senior Secondary
School Certificate Examination
(SSCE) passed at credit level in five
subjects, including English Language
and Mathematics.
Announcing the result yesterday in
Minna, Niger State, the NECO
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer,
Prof. Promise Okpala, said that 74.30
percent of the candidates made five
credits and above generally.
According to him, of the 989,622
persons who registered for the
examinations, only 978,886
candidates eventually wrote the
examination, which covers about 76
subjects. Giving a breakdown of the
result, Okpala said that 72.58 percent
scored credit level and above in
English Language while 69.49
percent made similar grades in
Mathematics.
In sciences, 72.86 percent of
candidates that sat for Chemistry had
credits, 69.38 percent of Physics
candidates had credit levels while
Biology candidates registered 67.83
percent credit grades.
Okpala noted that beyond the cost
of running the examination,
insecurity in many parts of the
country grossly affected the council’s
logistics operations during the
school-based examination.
According to him, “in spite of the
challenges facing the council, I feel
highly elated that the conduct of the
2014 SSCE examinations was a huge
success.”
He added that the council’s efforts
at reducing examination malpractices
paid off, as only 0.44 percent of
candidates were involved in
malpractices, and “this low level of
malpractice was an eloquent
testimony to the painstaking efforts
the council has consistently made to
eradicate examination malpractice.”
Meanwhile, 16 schools were de-
recognized for three years while six
supervisors and one invigilator were
blacklisted for their involvement in
examination malpractice during the
case in view.
An analysis of past results showed
a steady improvement over the past
three years, with NECO posting the
best result in the current year. link: www.ngrguardiannews.com/news/national-news/178591-neco-records-best-results-in-six-years

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