By Felix Khanoba
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2023 Internal Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) with a record of 61.60 percent of candidates scoring five credits and above including English and Mathematics.
The examination council disclosed that 93 Schools were found to be involved in whole-school (mass) cheating while 52 Supervisors were recommended for blacklisting due to poor supervision, aiding, and abetting during the examinations.
The Registrar of NECO, Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed this while announcing the release of the results of the examination in Minna on Tuesday.
Wushishi said that the erring schools will be invited to the Council for discussion after which appropriate sanctions will be applied.
He said that 1,196,985 candidates representing 616,398 males and 580,587 females sat for the examinations adding that 1,543 candidates with special needs also sat for the examinations.
Wushishi noted: “Number of candidates with Special Needs is 1,542 which includes 913 candidates with hearing impairment, 162 candidates with visual impairment, 103 candidates with Albanism, 61 candidates with Autism, 149 candidates with low vision, and 154 candidates with Adermatoglyphia which are candidates with no fingerprints.
“737,308 representing 61.60 percent Candidates passed with five Credits and above, 1,013,611 representing 84.68 percent candidates had five Credits irrespective of English and Mathematics.”
While commending President Bola Tinubu, minister of education and minister of state for education and others for the unwavering support for the exam body, the NECO boss said the SSCE results were released just 58 days after the last paper.
“The 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal was conducted from Monday 10th July to Friday 11th August 2023 and the Marking Exercise took place from Wednesday 30th August to Friday 15th September 2023.
” This means that this year, we are releasing our results 58 days after the last written paper. This is as a result of our desire to ensure that we release the complete results, rather than in batches.”
He called on candidates to access their results on NECO website: www.neco.gov.ng, using their examination registration numbers.
NECO releases 2023 SSCE results
