NECO 2014 Results: Registrar Says 70% of Students Failed

[LequteMan]

Nigeria- Seventy percent of students who sat for the National Examinations Council (NECO) November/December 2014 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) failed according to Prof. Promise Okapala, registrar for the examination council.

According to him, only 30.57 per cent of the candidates who sat for the examination passed at credit level in five major subjects including mathematics and English language.

However, he said this is an improvement in the exams as a four-year analysis of candidates who obtained five credits and above including English language and Mathematics shows that in 2011, 1.77 per cent of candidates passed, in 2012, 13.40 per cent credit pass, in 2013, 28.62 per cent credit pass while in 2014, it improved to 30.57 per cent.

The breakdown of the results showed that 59,996 out of 63,445 or 52.39 per cent scored credit pass in English language while 29,568 out of 59,262 or 49.8 per cent had credit pass in Mathematics.

In sciences, 51.62 per cent of candidates who sat for Chemistry had credit pass, 53.01 per cent of economics candidates had credit pass while in Biology 50.04 per cent of the candidates made credit grades.


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[wazobiaplus]

Does this mean that only some private school pupils are passing these exams? Really don't understand how you can have a 70% failure rate and not be concerned.

 

[LequteMan]

The only positive here is that the number of failures has reduced. Maybe the next time it's going to be 60 or 50%. Students don't read again, they wanna be like Wizkid.

 

[wazobiaplus]

Nothing wrong with being like wizkid as I am sure he passed his exams and he obviously has some talent.
We can all dream to be Mikel Obi or Ronaldo but we still need to get some foundation.