ekt_bear:

17 of 18,000?

How many sat for these exams elsewhere?

What is a reasonable pass rate?

Surely there is a typo of some sort here.

Demdem:

The Chairman of the Governing Council of the Bauchi State University, Prof. Ango Abdullahi, said only 17, out of the 18,000 secondary school students who sat for the National Examination Council examinations in Gombe State, earned qualification for university admission.

Demdem:

I see no typo here bro. check out the first paragraph again.

ekt_bear:

Before we condemn, what is the rate elsewhere?

I thought it is roughly 20%. . . like 200,000 spots in university available in the country, roughly 1 million or so taking JAMB? (Obviously me extrapolating from JAMB rates to WAEC pass rates is probably very wrong, so hopefully someone can come up with the real #s.)

I still don't think the blame should fall on the students (well, not all of it.)

Something is wrong with the entire society.

From the students, to their parents, to the teachers, to the schools, to the government of Gombe State.

ekt_bear:

Then it is a puzzling #.

17 students passing an exam, in an entire state? You should produce several times that number in a single individual school, not to talk of a local government, not to talk of a state!

It is as if you are telling me that someone can breath under water, or has gone without food for 3 years. Just seems impossible.

I'm surprised.

Demdem:



Abdullahi said, "I sat with the governor and we were really belly-aching about the state of secondary education and he confessed to me that they forwarded 18,000 students for NECO and WAEC examinations but only 17 got university (admission) qualification."

Demdem:

The truth is we tend to focus more on the southern states and few places here on nairaland not knowing what may be going on in so many other places especially in the north like Gombe, Jigawa, Kebbi, Zamfara even in states like Ebonyi.

1Dray:

U peeps keep mentioning Ebonyi, but Ebonyi students are never bn found wanting academically. If you doubt it, go and ask UNN, who was last year 'best graduating student in Medicine'. The truth is that, this is not the first time they've been doing it in UNN. . . Go to FUTO, UNIZIK etc and ask, Ebonyi students had always drawn thick lines.