Mass failure and cheating characterised the 2010 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) of the National Examination Council (NECO), according to the result released yesterday.
This is the third year in a row that mass failure will be recorded in NECO.
Releasing the result in Minna, Niger State, NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer Prof Promise Okpala said of the 256,840 registered candidates, 256,827 sat for the examination.
No fewer than 51,781 of 235,933 candidates, representing 20.16 per cent, passed English Language; 34.18 per cent or 87,508 candidates of the 234,959 who sat for Mathematics recorded credit pass.
In all the 25 subjects on which candidate were examined, Arabic had 37.87 per cent credit. Only 19,578 representing 37.7 per cent of 42,984 that sat for Financial Accounting made credit pass. Those who sat for French recorded the poorest result. None of the 492 candidates who sat for the subject had credit.
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NECO records another mass failure