NECO Releases June/July
Results, Records Improvement
28 Sep 2012
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Registrar and Chief Executive
Officer of NECO, Professor
Promise Okpala
By Aisha Wakaso
After five consecutive years of mass
failure, the National Examinations
Council (NECO) Thursday announced
an improvement of students in its
June/July 2012 Senior School
Certificate Examination (SSCE).
NECO said over 50 per cent of the
candidates who sat for examination
recorded credit pass in Mathematics
while 49.33 per cent of the 1,087,627
candidates passed English Language
with credit.
Registrar and Chief Executive Officer
of the Council, Professor Promise
Okpala, announced the improvement in
the results yesterday at the NECO
headquarters in Minna, saying that 13
schools in seven states across the
federation had been blacklisted for
gross examination malpractices for
the next two years.
Okpala said in Mathematics, out of the
1,124,879 that sat for the subject
567,011, representing 50. 41 per cent
passed at credit level and 418,351,
representing 37.19 per cent had
passes, while in English Language
554,884 candidates representing 49.33
per cent passed at credit level, and
478,605, representing 42.55 per cent
had passes.
Similarly, other core subject areas,
including, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
Geography, and others also recorded
significant improvements.
When compared with the 2011
performance rate, Okpala said only
22.34 per cent recorded credit pass in
English Language, while 25.14 per
cent made similar credit pass in
Mathematics and paltry one per cent
of the candidates that sat for the
examination made credit level in
Biology.
The registrar attributed the improved
performance of candidates in the just
concluded examination to the Federal
Government reforms in the education
sector. The registrar noted that for
sustainable improvement, all stake
holders
“Must put up efforts at assisting in
the education reforms.
“We have always said our reforms
will take years to manifest, the result
is what we are seeing today. All
stakeholders should not relax for
continuous improvement. We should be
focused in our responsibilities. We are
making progress, but the journey is
still far,” Okpala advised.
He however lamented that despite
efforts at curtailing examination
malpractices, some candidates and
schools still indulge in the nefarious
activity, compelling the council to
blacklist 13 schools in Anambra,
Cross Rivers, Rivers, Imo, Kano, Benue
and Nasarawa

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