The National Examinations
Council (NECO) has announced that 52.29 percent of the candidates that sat for June/July 2014 Senior Secondary School
Certificate Examination (SSCE)
passed at credit level in five subjects, including English
Language and mathematics.
The Registrar and Chief Executive officer of the Council, Professor Promise Okpala, who announced the result in Minna, said 74.30
percent of the candidates made
five credits and above generally.
He said that 978,886 candidates of the 989,622 that registered sat for the examination, which
was conducted in 76 subjects.
Of 989,622 candidates that wrote the examination, 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, while 69.38 percent
of physics candidates had credit levels and in biology 67.83
percent of the candidates made
credit grades.
Okpala said that beyond the cost of running the examination,
insecurity in many parts of the country grossly affected the
logistic operations of the council during the school based
examination.
The registrar also said that efforts of the council at reducing
examination malpractices paid
off as only 0.44 percent of those
who sat for the examination were involved in malpractices. [hupso]
