NECO: 60.74% Candidates Scored Five Credits in English, Mathematics

Kuni Tyessi in Abuja

The National Examination Council, (NECO) has released the 2022 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) (internal) results with 60.74 per cent of the candidates scoring five credits and above in both English Language and Mathematics out of a total of 1,198,412 candidates.

It stated that when compared to the 2021 SSCE figure of 878,925 which represented 71.64 per cent, the results showed a decrease by 10.9 per cent.
Announcing the results at its national headquarters in Minna, Niger State, the Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, said a total of 1,209,703 registered, of which 1,198,412 sat for the exams.

In a breakdown, he explained that of the 1,198,412 candidates, 630,180 were male, which represented 52.58 per cent, while 568,232 were female, representing 47.41 per cent.

“Number of candidates with special needs is 1,031 with the breakdown as follows, 98 with albinism, 177 with altism, 574 with learning impairment and 107 visually impaired,” the Registrar stated.

He disclosed that about 13,594 candidates were involved in exam malpractice, which was 0.13 per cent of the total number of candidates that for the exam in 2022, compared to 20,003, representing 1.63 per cent cases recorded in 2021.

Wushishi also revealed that about 29 supervisors were blacklisted for various offences ranging from poor supervision, insult, aiding, and abetting during the exams.

He added, “upon the foregoing, four schools were recommended for de-recognition for two years due to their involvement in mass cheating/whole school.”