NECO RESUL (ANOTHER MESS)

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.