NECO records 69.57% credit pass in SSCE

After three years of consecutive mass failure in
its Senior School Certificate Examination
(SSCE), the National Examinations Council
(NECO) yesterday announced that 69.57 per
cent of the candidates who wrote this year’s
June/July SSCE had five credits and above.
Announcing the results of the school-based
examination in Minna, the Niger State capital,
NECO’s Registrar and the Chief Executive of the
Council, Prof Promise Okpala said 681,507
candidates, representing 66.63 per cent, made
credit pass and above in English language while
668,314 candidates, or 65.50 per cent,
recorded same in Mathematics.
In Biology, 66.88 per cent of the candidates
had credits and above; 66.68 per cent of the
candidates who wrote Physics and 66.41 per
cent in Chemistry candidates also made credit
pass and above.
The NECO chief said of the 1,034,263
candidates who sat for the examination, which
had 128 blind candidates, 998,624 of them, or
96.55 per cent, made five passes and above.
The elated NECO registrar also said a small
percentage of candidates was involved in
examination malpractice.