NECO releases 2022 SSCE external results

FAVOUR ISHEMBER, Abuja 

The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination results, fifty-seven days after the last paper of the exams that were conducted from November 21 to December 21, 2022.

The registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Wushishi made the announcement in Minna, Niger State, on Thursday.

He said 59,124 candidates sat for the examination, with 31,316 males representing 52.96 per cent while 27,808, representing 47.03 per cent were female.

Wushishi added that the number of candidates that sat for the English Language exam was 58,012 out of which 44,162, representing 76.13 per cent got credit and above, while the number of candidates that sat for Mathematics was 57,700, out of which 43,096, representing 74.69 per cent got credit and above.

He further disclosed that the number of candidates who got five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics is 33,914 representing 57.36 per cent.

“Also 46,825 candidates, representing 79.20% got five credits and above irrespective of English Language and Mathematics,” he said.

“On the issue of examination malpractice, he said 11,419 candidates were booked for various forms of malpractice, as against 4,454 in 2021, which shows a sharp rise in the number of malpractice cases,” he continued. 

According to Wushishi, this is largely due to the improvement in the strategy and technique adopted by the monitoring officers. 

“This led to the blacklisting of four supervisors, one each from Rivers and Plateau States and two from Ogun State for aiding and abetting as well as poor supervision,” he said.

Recall that the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, External was conducted by NECO from November 21 to December 21, 2022, and is being released 57 days today.

Speaking further on the examination, Wushishi said a total of 29 subjects were examined as was done in 2021.

” Last year we registered only a little bit above 40,000 candidates, but this year, we registered more than 16,000 candidates and our 50,000 plus of such candidates sat for the examination.”

Wushishi noted an improvement over last year’s results and credited supervisors who complied with NECO’s monitoring strategies for the high rate of malpractice cases that were identified in the current year more than what was discovered last year.

The nature of exam malpractice is mostly, a coalition in different forms, when you talk to somebody during an examination in the exam hall, you have committed an offence, and when you exchange paper or pen, all that is not allowed. 

He said such a coalition can be identified while marking the exam papers, as one could see how both students would write and actuate their punctuation marks at the same time and place, with the same answers in the same form and presentation.

As part of punitive actions taken against candidates for examination malpractice, Wushishi said “results are withheld, but for now, we have not started taking any legal action, but we have resolved to go through the process of approving these results to start taking legal action.”

Wushishi noted that a look at the judiciary will show there are no special tribunals to handle examination malpractice across the nation, but only conversational courts that one can go through to address the misconduct.

“When you look at the laws, you will find that there hasn’t been much legal action that has to do with examination malpractice in the entire educational system in the country. But we are going to make sure that all this is out in place.” 

“Hence the council is considering legal action against erring candidates,” he said.