Only 10percent of candidates
scored credit and above in
core subjects
The National Examinations
Council (NECO) has recorded
another mass failure in the
November/December Senior
School Certificate
Examinations (SSCE).
The registrar to the
examination body, Professor
Promise Okpala, made the
announcement on
Wednesday, while releasing
the results at the council
headquarters in Minna, Niger
state.
The 2011 result that was just
released by the council
revealed that 10 percent of
the 110,724 candidates that
sat for the examinations
scored credit and above in
core subjects like English
language, Biology, Chemistry,
Physics and Geography.
Okpala said there was
improvement in Mathematics
as 41 percent of the students
scored credit, pass and above,
compared to that of last year,
which recorded only 17
percent success in the same
subject.
“It is troubling that at a time
when the nation is facing
decay in its moral standard
with the rise of militancy,
despite religious dedication,
only 5 percent scored credit,
pass and above in Islamic
studies while less than one
percent scored credit pass
and above in Christian
religious studies,” he said.
The results that were
presented showed a 40
percent reduction in the
number of candidates that sat
for the examination in 2011,
but the registrar attributed
that to the council’s
determination towards
eradicating malpractices in
the conduct of its
examination.
For the past five years, the
examination body has
recorded mass failure.
