{"id":191683,"date":"2020-02-06T19:26:09","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191683"},"modified":"2020-02-06T19:26:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T18:26:49","slug":"neco-releases-nov-dec-2019-ssce-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=191683","title":{"rendered":"NECO releases Nov\/Dec 2019 SSCE results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The National Examinations Council (NECO) has published the results of candidates, who sat for their November\/December 2019 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates.<\/p>\n<p>This was announced by Mohammed Gana, the Acting Registrar of the Council on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Gana stated that the results are available 49 days after the last paper was written.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 65,207 candidates sat for English language, out of which 41,214, representing 63% got either Distinction or Credit.<\/p>\n<p>66,398 candidates sat for Mathematics, out of which 54,565, representing 82.18% got either Distinction or Credit.<\/p>\n<p>Gana said that 33,576 candidates, representing 48.68% got five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics.<\/p>\n<p>The NECO boss, however, expressed his displeasure at the increase in exam malpractices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile 12,084 cases were recorded in 2018, 17,004 cases was recorded in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis came about as a result of the comprehensive monitoring by senior staff which also resulted in the decline in number of candidates with 5 credits and above,\u201d Gana said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Examinations Council (NECO) has published the results of candidates, who sat for their November\/December 2019 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates. This was announced by Mohammed Gana, the Acting Registrar of the Council on Thursday. In a statement, Gana stated that the results are available 49 days after the last paper [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":191684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2828,3],"tags":[2658,6605],"class_list":["post-191683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-a","tag-neco"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/191684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}