NECO Results Released

 

The National Examinations Council’s (NECO) Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) has announced that 69.57 per cent candidates had five credits and above in the June/July 2013 examination.

According to the Registrar and Chief Executive of the Council, Professor Promise Okpala, who announced the release of the school based examination in Minna yesterday, 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.

He stated that in Biology, 66.88 per cent had credit and above, 66.68 per cent of the candidates that wrote Physics and 66.41 per cent Chemistry candidates equally made credit pass and above.
  
Okpala also said out of 1,034,263 candidates that sat for the examination which had 128 blind candidates, 998,624 candidates or 96.55 per cent made five passes and above.

He further added that a lower percentage of candidates were involved in examination malpractice.

Giving a comparative analysis of students' performance in the last three years, Okpala said the council witnessed "rises in performance from 15.84 per cent in 2011 through 51.66 per cent last year to this year's 69.57 per cent."