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  • NECO releases June/July SSCE results

    The National Examination Council ( NECO ) on Monday released the 2018 June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with 71.48 per cent of the students obtaining five Credit Pass and above including English Language and Mathematics.

    Announcing the release of the results on Monday in Minna, the acting Registrar, Abubakar Mohammed Gana said that there is a 0.63 per cent improvement in the general performance of candidates in 2018 as compared with 2017.

    According to him, 875,464 out of 1,032,729 candidates which represents 84.77 per cent that sat for the examination in Nigeria and other countries got five credits and above while 84.54 per cent got credit pass and above in English Language and 850,331 candidates representing 82.34 per cent obtained credit pass and above in Mathematics.

    Gana said that 20,181 malpractice cases were detected observing that there were over 7,960 cases of candidates copying from foreign materials while Mathematics was the most cheated subject followed by English Language.

  • NECO releases 2017 Nov/Dec SSCE results

    The National Examination Council (NECO) has announced the release of the 2017 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination results.

    The Registrar of the Council, Charles Uwakwe, a professor, announced the results on Tuesday at its headquarters in Minna. ‎

    ‎Mr. Uwakwe said that a total of 42, 985‎ candidates registered for the examination and 42, 429 wrote the examination in 28 subjects.

    He said 24, 098 candidates representing 56.79 per cent ‎had five credits and above.

    The registrar said that 32, 917 candidates representing 77.58 per cent had five credits irrespective of English Language and Mathematics.

    Mr. Uwakwe explained that 32, 701 candidates representing 78.82 per cent had credit and above in Mathematics‎.

    He said that 29, 258 candidates representing 70 per cent had credits and above in English Language.

    According to him, 4,425 candidates, representing 10.43 per cent were involved in examination malpractice.

    The registrar noted that the number represented ‎5.9 per cent reduction in examination malpractice compared to 2016 record.

    Mr. Uwakwe said that the results were released on time to enable candidates who needed them for the admission for 2017/2018 academic session.‎

    “It will please the general public to know that this is the first time the council is releasing result of Nov/Dec ‎SSCE results barely 38 days after the test.

    “The early and timely release of the 2017 Nov/Dec SSCE result is in line with the council new work ethos that borders on efficient service delivery,” he said.

    Mr. Uwakwe said that the feat was possible as a result of deployment of improved logistics that ensured appropriate standards.

    He urged the candidates to access their results on NECO Website – www.mynecoexams.com, using their examination registration numbers and the council approved result checker.‎

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Ogun State was best in performance of the 2017 SSCE Nov/Dec. Examination.

    Ogun had a percentage of 91. 42 per cent of candidates had five credits and above followed by Akwa – Ibom with 87.97 per cent and Oyo with a percentage of 86.90 per cent.

    NAN reports that Plateau‎ topped the list of the examination malpractice with 943 cases, representing 21.31 per cent followed by Oyo with 884 cases, representing 19.97 per cent.

    Adamawa is the third on 464 cases of examination malpractice, representing 10.48 per cent.

     

    NAN

     

  • WAEC withholds 15,000 results of SSCE candidates

    The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of over 15,000 candidates that sat for the May/June senior school certificate examinations.

    The affected candidates are from Niger State.

    The decision to hold on to the results was reportedly because the state government failed to pay the examination fees on behalf of the candidates.

    Non-indigenes that sat for the examination paid their registration fees of about N14,000 each to the Ministry of Education following the state government’s decision to pay for only the indigenes.

    However, the payments made by the non-indigenes were not remitted to WAEC, according to Thisday.

    It was gathered that over N750 million was owed WAEC by both indigene and non-indigene candidates that sat for the examination.

    The situation is a repeat of last year’s stalemate.

    In 2016, WAEC and National Examinations Council (NECO), withheld results of candidates from Niger State.

    The councils had explained that they took the action because the state government failed to remit fees to the examination body.