The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the results of 2014 November /December External Senior School Certificate Examination
with 30.5 per cent of the candidates who sat for the examinations
having 5 credits and above including Mathematics and English Language.
Addressing a news conference yesterday in Minna to release the
result, the registrar, Prof Promise Okpalla, disclosed that 63,445
candidates registered for the examination but only 61,386 actually sat
for the examination.
The registrar disclosed that 18,500 candidates passed with five
credits and above including English language and Mathematics which
represents 30.5 per cent of the total number of candidates who sat for
the examination.
He disclosed that the percentage of those with the pass level is better than 28 per cent recorded in the last year’s Nov/Dec examination while the number of those who passed both English and Mathematics have increased in the examination.
Okpalla disclosed that 55 per cent of the candidates passed Mathematics in 2014.
As against 53 percent in 2013 while in English Language 52 percent
passed with credit as against 48 percent in 2013 external SSCE.
According to him as the results of candidates in NECO /SSCE continue
to improve so also the level of examination malpractices will continue
to decrease Aadding that the council recorded no leakage in the
examination.
He said “the council introduced innovative quality control mechanism at the various stages of our examination.
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