June/July exam: 73.89 % candidates make 5 credits, including Maths, English— NECO

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By Correspondent in Minna

The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) internal and announced February as new date for candidates who could not sit for the June/July 2020 examination due to EndSars protests.

NECO added that 223, 000 candidates who could not sit for the examination from twelve states: Kano, Abia, Edo, Enugu, Rivers, Ondo, Osun, Lagos, Ekiti, Oyo, Ogun and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja would make up for the lost oportunity by ending february and first week of March, 2011.

The Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Godswill Obioma, disclosed this at NECO headquarters in Minna, adding that out of the 1, 209, 992 candidates that sat for the examination 894,101 made 5 credits and above, including English and Mathematics.

“A total of; 1, 221, 447 candidates registered for the June/July 2020 SSCE examination (internal), 665, 830 males and 555,617 females, out of which 33, 470 cutting across both gender were involved in different forms of examination malpractices,”he further disclosed.

He explained that candidates’ performances in 2020 were more impressive, compare to 2019.

“Candidates who made five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics are; 894,101, representing 73.89 per cent, compared to 2019 June/July SSCE figures of 829,787 with an increase of 2.3 per cent.

“Candidates who made five credits and above, irrespective of English Language and Mathematics are; 1,112,041, representing 91.91 per cent. When compared to 2019 June/July SSCE figures of 1,042,989, there is an increase of 2.01 per cent, Obioma further revealed.

The Registrar, however, attributed the achievements of NECO in conducting globally accepted examination standard to the evolution of strategies by its management to check examination frauds said.

“The number of candidates involved in various forms of malpractice in 2020 is 33, 470, representing 2.61 per cent, whereas 40, 630 representing, 3.53 per cent recorded in 2019”.

Obioma,who promised that NECO would maintain zero tolerance for examination cheats hence, recommended the de-recognition of 12 centres for two years for their involvement in cheating.

He gave the figures of the centres involved as; “1 in the FCT, 4 in Adamawa, 2 in Kaduna, 2 in Katsina, 2 in Niger and 1 in Taraba state.”.

He exonerated any NECO staff of involvement in the Fabian Kings and Queens International School, Kaduna saga.

“We discovered that it was an internally arranged mercenary that was dictating answers. No infractions from NECO staff.

“However, we have blacklisted both the schools involved, Supervisors and Invigilators.”

Meanwhile, NECO has assured candidates who missed the June/July SSCE examinations, as a result of the EndSARs protest, that they would be given the opportunity to write their papers next February, 2021.

According to him, the 223, 000 candidates from across the 12 states of the federation would be participating in the re-sitting and/or writing all the papers, including Chemistry (practicals), Economics, Commerce, Technical Drawing, Further Mathematics and Food & Nutrition.




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