the June/ July 2014 secondary school certificate examination.
Releasing the results at its national headquarters in Minna, the
Registrar of NECO, Prof. Promise Okpala, noted that the candidates
showed a remarkable improvement when compared with last year's result.
According to him, 72.58 per cent of the candidates obtained credit
pass in English Language while 69.49 per cent obtained credit pass in
Mathematics.
He pointed out that 989, 622 registered for the examinations, out of
whom 978,886 actually sat for the papers.
Giving a breakdown of the result, Okpala said that 783,975 sat for
Biology out of which 531,784 representing 67.83 per cent, obtained
credit pass; Chemistry had 418,785 candidates with 305,120
representing 72.86 per cent had credit pass; while 290,310 or 69.38
per cent of the 418,440 who sat for Physics obtained credit pass.
He added that of the 19,067 that sat for Further Mathematics ,12,827
passed at credit level, while 347,834 of the 500,897 candidates who
sat for Agricultural Science obtained creit passes.
Okpala stated that that only 0.44 per cent of those who sat for the
examination were involved in examination malpractices. This, he said,
was a testimony to the efforts of the council to eradicate the
scourge.
The Registrar added that the trend was an indication that efforts by
President Goodluck Jonathan and all stakeholders in the education
sector to improve the quality of teaching and learning in secondary
schools were yielding positive results.
The ultimate aim, according to him, was to actualize the educational
goals of the transformation agenda of President Jonathan.
He believed that the role of promoting quality education through the
conduct of selection and certification examination was a mission
within the core mandate of NECO.
" To this end, we have steadily improved the quality of various stages
of the Council's examinations from, the pre-examination to the release
of results in order to check examinations malpractices which poses
serious challenge to quality examination delivery in Nigeria," he
said.
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