AFTER six years of poor performance by its candidates, the
National Examinations Council (NECO) Wednesday announced that 52.29 percent of
candidates 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.
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