NECO records over 70% improvement in all subjects The National Examinations Council, NECO, has released the June/ July 2014 results with positive improvement over the last previous examinations conducted by the body, with 72.58 per cent credit pass in English Language and 69.49 per cent credit pass in Mathematics, out. Releasing the results at its national headquarters in Minna on Wednesday, the Registrar and the Chief Executive Officer of the body, Professor Promise Nwackukwu Okpala, noted that the results were improvement on the previous exams conducted between 2012 and 2014. He pointed out that 989, 622 registered for the examinations, out of whom, 978,886 actually sat for the papers. An analysis of other core subjects indicated that 783,975 sat for Biology with 531,784 pass at credit level representing 67.83 per cent, Chemistry had 418,785 candidates with 305,120 pass at credit level, representing 72.86 per cent, 418,440 sat for Physics with 290,310 pass cat credit level, representing 69.38 per cent. Also 19,067 sat for Further Mathematics while12,827 passed at credit level, representing 67.27 per cent, Agricultural Science had 500,897 candidates with 347,834 pass at credit level, representing 69.44 per cent . Other subjects fell in the same category of flamboyant credit passes. Professor Okpala stated that an analysis of the malpractices showed that only 0.44 per cent of those who sat for the examination were involved , acting as eloquent testimony of the painstaking efforts of the Council has consistently made to eradicate examinations malpractices. The Registrar opined that the trend was an indication that efforts by President Goodluck Jonathan and all stakeholders in the education sector to improve the quality of teaching and learning in secondary schools were yielding positive results, calling on all Nigerians to support such laudable efforts and ensure high quality teaching-learning process in schools. The ultimate aim, according to him, was to actualize the educational aspects of the transformation agenda of President Jonathan. He believed that the role of promoting quality education through the conduct of selection and certification examination was a mission within the core mandate of NECO. To this end, we have steadily improved the quality of various stages of the Council’s examinations from, the pre-examination to the release of results in order to check examinations malpractices which poses serious challenge to quality examination delivery in Nigeria’. The Registrar expressed gratitude to members of the press for their partnership and unflinching supports in the interest of promoting quality education system, in the country
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 22:41:04 +0000
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