The National Examination Council (NECO) has blacklisted 52 examination supervisors and 93 schools for various exam malpractices such as mass cheating, poor supervision, aiding and abetting cheating during the conduct of last Senior School Certificate Examinations whose results were released on Tuesday.
Formally declaring the release of the results of the 2023 Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) internals, the council Registrar, Prof Dantana Wushishi said the schools and supervisors were found to have been involved in the various exams malpractices during the conduct of the examination.
While releasing the results before newsmen at the Council’s Headquarters in Minna, the Council Registrar, said 737,308 candidates, representing 61.60 per cent, made five credits, including Mathematics and English Language.
Prof. Wushishi said of the 1,205,888 candidates that registered for the examination, only 1,196,985 sat for it, adding that of the total candidates that sat for the examination, 616,398 were males and 580,587 females.
He also disclosed that the number of candidates who made five credits and above irrespective of English Language and Mathematics is 1,013,611 representing 84.60 per cent.
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The Registrar said, “the number of candidates involved in various forms of malpractice in 2023 is 12,030 representing 0.07 per cent as against 2022 of 13,594, representing 0.13 per cent cases recorded in 2022”.
Furthermore, he disclosed that the number of candidates with special needs is 1,542 with 913 with hearing impairment, 162 with visual impairment, 103 with albinism, 61 with autism, 149 with low vision and 154 with adermatoglyphia (that is, candidates with no fingerprints).
While reeling out the performance analysis by states, Prof. Wushishi said candidates from Abia State led other states as they scored five credits and above including Mathematics and English language making 85.53 percent. The state also leads in candidates with five credits and above irrespective of Mathematics and English language 95.50 percent.
For least performed states with five credits and above including mathematics and English language, Zamfara state is bottom on the table with 39.10 percent with just 7.77 percent ahead of Niger which came second to least with 46.87 percent.