Presidency To Probe Mass Failure In SSCE, NECO Exams

It is not the fault of the students.  The teachers are the products of institutions which someone said are unemployable. 

What do you think these teachers will pass on to the children? Garbage in garbage out!

Couple of years ago, my younger sister used to fail her exams in high school.  We decided to investigate the reason for her constant failures.  As it turned out, every time she went to school, the class teacher would ask them to place their head on the desk and sleep while she (class teacher) went about selling the lollipop, ice cream and all other sundry items she brought to school, and at the end of term, she would set exams for students she had hardly taught anything.

We had to change her school and there was marked improvement in her academic performance.

That's my point, If the students have not learnt then the teacher has not taught.

One of my lecturer will never come to lecture until two weeks to exam then he will give some  handout so that you can use it to prepare for the exam, now tell me how can one read and pass his course. With some lecturer,  It is  cause to ask question in class. The most annoying part  is that you cannot complain to anybody because if you do, those lecturer will victimise you.

Sack Sam Egwu, a real Ewu if ever there was one. Poor students, what a way to start a life, it's never easy FAILING any exam.

10 months from now the cycle will still repeat itself.  and i would like to cheap in that everyone is to be blamed for this failure.

Government
Parents
Tutors
Society ( The Greatest )
Education Bodies.

The essence of a probe or even its meaning is to "Find out". In this case, its to find out the cause of mass failure (obvious as that may seem to everyone). The use of statistical data is usually to provide a measure of performance, against the goals or expectations. Its a relief to know that the performance figures has struck the government and they realise that the cause should be found with a view to solving the problem.
However, the word probe in NIgeria has always implied a set negatively motivated actions against officers usually resulting in punishment of some sort.
I totally disagree with the Hadiya that said some heads of schools may be purnished for mass failure of students.
That is not the essence of the required kind of probe in education. The probe should not even be done by a committee, but be carried out by researchers in the universities by education lecturers and students at masters level accross the country over a period of time. So they can go all out to the grassroots and identify all causes.

Finally a committee should review the findings and recommendations of the research, develop and implement a solution project plan to conciously monitor and improve the education of students from JS1 to SS3. 

Many of factors that affect the performance of students and how to alleviate the factors will need to be identified and tackled. You cant expect a student that  has not learnt anything from JS1 to SS3 to pass SSCE. Failure does not start in the exam hall. Expo and mercenary are available at a price just out side the exam hall. Even though cheating is purnishable by 21yrs in jail. Strikes interrupt teaching, yes, but there are two sides to education, teaching and learning. Students are always waiting to be taught or dont even learn what they have been taught.
When a candidate that does not accept that he does not "know" but registers for SSCE, he knows not that he does not know; and as the saying goes "he is a compound fool".

There is a big difference in the way we handle problems in Nigeria and the way developed countries handle them. God help us to develop in our approach, mind set and thinking. Amen.

Is our government mature and responsible enough to take blame for their failures?
I think comments about Nigeria on Nairaland is not the way people see things but the way things are, This country is useless.

@texaxpete
Well, an explanation may be that [color=#990000]WAEC is typically taken exclusively by SS3 students of secondary schools, while anyone can get a NECO form and take the exam. It may just well be different sample spaces you're comparing.

I agree with you, though. It's an abysmal result.[/color]

Both WAEC and NECO May/June are taken only by SS3 Students. The one anybody can pick the form and take are the November/December versions of both WAEC and NECO. The sample spaces compared are almost the same.

If a certificate is to be respected,it must first validate its own accuracy.

the standard of education is going down due to insufficient facilities to run the system

They are happy when they see students fail. shiooooooor

Hmmmm, My people, are we not missing something?

SOME STUDENTS PASSED!!!!  

So before laying all the blame at the foot of the government,
Think of the students that failed, did they actually read?
A lot of students will tell you the first eleven man u players who'll play on saturday
rather than recite the multiplication table

I dont even believe in blaming anyone for your circumstances,

It is an agelong problem that has accumulated right from the time Government neglected the grass root teachers.

It's obviously an experiment that failed. It didn't happen today  or yesterday, the seed has been sown a long time. So, setting up an ad hoc committee to 'find out' anything here is to take the same result we already know back to the government corridors and divide more loot. Someone once quipped that in 'Africa's giant' (Nigeria), the best thing that ever comes through its doors is non-productive education. It's all an experiment, folks. .  (and blimey. .  did I spell that right)