The National Examination Council (NECO) has recorded an improved result in its 2014 June/July Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE), even as it blacklisted 16 schools and six supervisors for examination malpractice.

The registrar of NECO, Prof. Promise Okpala, disclosed yesterday at a news conference to release the 2014 SSCE result that 74.3 per cent of the candidates who sat for the June/July Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) passed with five credits and above as against 69.8 per cent in 2013.

Similarly, he stated that 52.2 per cent of the candidates scored five credits including Mathematics and English Language as against 48.7 per cent in 2013.

Okpala said that out of the 978,886 that sat for the examination, 727,389 had five credits and above, while 511,931 scored five credits and above this year as against 500,306 in 2013.

He also disclosed that the level of malpractice in this year’s examination has gone down, adding that the level of malpractice this year is 0.44 per cent as against 0.80 per cent in 2013.

According to him, 4,343 cases of malpractice were recorded this year while in 2013 8,307 cases were recorded, about a 50 per cent reduction across the country.

The registrar disclosed that 16 secondary schools had been de-recognized for three years while six supervisors were blacklisted for being involved in examination malpractice.

The registrar stated that the level of pass has increased even though Nigeria Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) has developed a new curriculum for senior secondary schools and was approved by National Council of Education (NCE) for implementation with 34 entrepreneurship subjects.

He said that the introduction of the subjects has expanded the NECO syllabus from 40 to 76 subjects, thereby increasing the cost of conducting examinations with increased personnel and days of examination.

Okpala said that, notwithstanding, NECO has been able to release the results within 62 days after the last paper.

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Nigerians are not as dull as WAEC paints dem out to be

Thanks for releasing the results this fast but we all know the game of those passes

let d search 4 admission begin again.shall we begin?