The National Examinations Council, NECO, on Wednesday, January 13, 2021, released the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination results with a 2.3 per cent increase in the number of candidates who scored five credits and above, including English and Mathematics.
This was disclosed by the Registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma while speaking at the NECO headquarters in Minna, Niger State.
NECO Registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma
Obioma said a total of 1,221,447 candidates registered for the examination, 665,830 males and 555,617 females.
According to him, the number of candidates that sat for the examination is 1,209,992,796 males, representing 55.53 per cent and 550,126 females, representing 45.46 per cent.
He said that the number of candidates with special needs that sat for the examination was 160.
“Number of candidates who made credit and above in the English language is 973,331, representing 82.68 per cent. Number of candidates who made credit and above in Mathematics is 1,060,100, representing 90.08 per cent.
“Number of candidates who made five credits and above including English and Mathematics is 984,101 representing 73.89 per cent; compared to 2019 June/July SSCE figures of 829,787,there is an increase of 2.3 per cent.
“Number of candidates who made five credits and above irrespective of English Language is 1,112,041, representing 91.91 per cent; compared to 2019 June/July SSCE figures of 1,04,989 there is an increase of 2.01 per cent
“Number of candidates involved in various forms of malpractice in 2020 is 33,470, representing 2.61 per cent, and 40,630, representing 3.53 per cent of such cases, were recorded in 2019″, the registrar said.
The registrar said four schools in Adamawa State, two in Kaduna State, two in Kastina State, two in Niger State, one in Taraba State and one in the FCT were derecognised by the Council for engaging in mass cheating.
He said the Council also blacklisted 24 supervisors who engaged in aiding and abetting, connivance with non-candidates to write answers on chalkboards and poor supervision.
The Registrar expressed gratitude that the Council was able to conduct the examination despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and the #EndSARS protests in 2020.
He said, “We wish to inform the general public that the Council has made special arrangements for those candidates who missed some papers due to the EndSARS protests in those states. The affected candidates will now sit for those papers missed during the forthcoming 2020 SSCE (External) scheduled from Monday 1st February 2021 to Wednesday 3rd March 2021.
“These special arrangements will be at no extra cost to these candidates. Upon the release of the 2020 SSCE Internal results, those of the affected candidates will be pending for the papers missed and would be subsequently updated after the supplementary examination results are released.”
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