The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced the June/July 2016 Senior Secondary Schools results in which 88.51 percent of the candidates got at least five credits including Mathematics and English Language.
Registrar of the Council, Professor Charles Uwakwe, who released the results at the Headquarters in Minna, said that 905,011 (84.54 per cent) of candidates got five credits and above in English Language while 812,846 (80.16 percent) got five credits and above in Mathematics.
He said that the comparative analysis of candidates performance in the examination for 2015 and 2016 shows that there is one percent (1%) improvement in the general performance of candidates in 2016 (88.51%) as compared with 2015 (87.51 percent).
The analysis of candidates’ performance by State has Ekiti State recording the highest of 96.48 percent and Katsina State recording the least with 72.59 percent.
Prof. Uwakwe said that 1,022,474 candidates in Nigeria and other countries sat and wrote the examination out of 1,027,016 who registered.
He said that 43,905 cases of malpractice was recorded, and the number of schools involved in mass cheating as 194, adding that the results of candidates involved have been cancelled.
The Registrar said that the council was able to sustain its timely release of results at the stipulated time from the date the last paper was written. [myad]
