THE
National Examinations Council has released the June/July 2015 Senior
Secondary School Certificate Examination results. The result showed a
remarkable improvement when compared with previous examinations between
2011 and 2014.
The Registrar and Chief Executive
Officer of NECO, Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, on Thursday announced the
results at the council’s national headquarters in Minna, Niger State.
He observed that the results which
showed 83.28 per cent credit pass in English Language and 80.74 per cent
credit pass in Mathematics was an improvement on the previous exams
conducted between 2011 and 2014.
Garba, who coincidentally marked his 100
days in office on Wednesday, said that 969,991 candidates registered
for the examinations, out of which 969,491 sat for the papers with 68.56
per cent of the candidates obtaining five credits and above in five
subjects including Mathematics and English.
Garba said in the comparative analysis
of 2014 and 2015 June/July SSCE, it showed that in 2014, 978,886
candidates sat for the exam with 511,931 of the candidates obtaining
credits in five subjects above, including English and Mathematics.
In the analysis of candidates’
performance by states, he said Delta State scored the highest in five
credits and above, including English and Mathematics with 83.51 per cent
and Edo State followed with 83.42 per cent while Yobe State was the
least with 36.12 per cent.
The
Registrar said 43,608 cases of malpractices were recorded with those
who had their cases established, having their results cancelled.
Garba added that schools with defaults had their candidates’ results withheld.
“We have banned seven schools and
centres for their involvement in malpractice cases for at least two
years and some forever. This action also affects ad-hoc staff. We have
blacklisted those involved in malpractices,” the registrar added.
Source: punch newspaper
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