The National Examinations Council has released the 2013 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination result (External).
The result indicated that there were remarkable improvements in English and Mathematics when compared with that of 2o12.
The Registrar and Chief Executive of National Examination Council, Professor Promise Nwachukwu Okpala, announced the release of the result on Friday at the Headquarters of NECO in Minna, Niger State.
Okpala said that a total of 61,897 candidates registered for the examination for an average of eight subjects.
According to him, a total of 30.000 candidates scored credit and above in eight subjects, including English and Mathematics, which represent about 48.77 per cent.
The Registrar, however, expressed happiness at the drastic reduction in malpractice in last year’s November/December examination, which recorded only 0.14 per cent.
He said: “The low level of malpractice is an eloquent testimony of the painstaking efforts the council has consistently made to eradicate examination malpractice.”
Okpala assured Nigerians that the examination body will do everything humanly possible towards ensuring that it recorded zero malpractice in the coming years.
Giving a breakdown of candidates performances by subject for three years from 2011 to 2013, he said the council recorded 10.3 per cent pass in 2011, 33.89 per cent pass in 2012 and 48.77 per cent pass in 2013.
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