The Registrar and Chief Executive officer of National Examinations Council (NECO), Professor Promise Okpala has revealed that out of the 978,886 who sat for the June/July 2014 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) 52.29 percent passed at credit level in five subjects including English Language and Mathematics while 74.30 percent of the candidates made five credits and above generally.
Giving a breakdown of the result, Okpala said that of the 989,622 candidates that wrote the examination 72.58 percent scored credit level and above in English Language while 69.49 percent made similar grades in Mathematics.
In sciences, 72.86 percent of candidates that sat for Chemistry had credits while 69.38 percent of Physics candidates had credit levels and in Biology 67.83 percent of the candidates made credit grades.
The registrar also said that efforts of the council at reducing examination malpractices paid off as only 0.44 percent of those who sat for the examination were involved in malpractices.
