NECO records Mass Failure in 2010 June/July SSCE

Started by sparrow, Sep 21, 2010, 03:01 AM

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ANOTHER mass failure has been recorded in a major school certificate examination as the National Examinations Council (NECO) Monday released the results of its June /July 2010 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).

Less than 25per cent of the candidates recorded passes in English Language and Mathematics.

Releasing the results in Minna, Niger State, the Registrar/Chief Executive of the council, Prof. Promise Okpala, said 1,143,169 candidates registered for the council's 11th school-based examination out of which only 1,132,357 candidates actually sat for the examinations.

Okpala said 245,890 candidates representing 21.54 per cent of the 1,116,169 candidates passed English language at distinction and credit levels; 599,911 had ordinary passes; 203,875 failed.

In Mathematics, only 285,146 candidates or 24.9 per cent of 1,113,177 candidates recorded distinction and credits; 44.80 per cent had passes and 249,562 failed.

Results of science subjects however recorded an improvement. In Biology, of 1,137,906 candidates that sat for the examination, 502,677 representing 44.17 per cent passed with distinction and credits; 316,249 had pass grades; 225,055 failed.

Okpala said only 37 per cent made distinction and credits in Chemistry, 30.4 per cent recorded similar results in Physics.

The NECO boss said candidates recorded a slight improvement when compared with last year's results, but admitted that the improvement was not significant enough.

The Registrar said Rivers State recorded 45, 131 examination malpractice cases, the highest by any state, Kaduna had 41,878 cases. Bayelsa recorded the least number of 235 cases.

NECO's sister examination body, the West African Examination Council (WAEC), last month released the result of its May/June examination.

The Head of the Nigeria National Office of the Council, Dr. Iyi Uwadiae, said 1,351,557 candidates, consisting 739,664 males and 611,893 females wrote the examination.

According to him, 677,007 candidates, representing 50.09 per cent made five credits and above, while 534,841 candidates, also representing 39.57 per cent had six credits and above.

Further breakdown of the results, showed that 1,058,806 candidates, about 78.33 per cent made two credits and above; 936,470, representing 68.84 per cent had three credits and above, while the remainig 806,583 candidates, representing 59.67 percent got four credits and above.

NECO records mass failure in June/July SSCE