The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2023 internal Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE), with a record of 61.60 per cent of candidates scoring five credits and above, including English and Mathematics.
The examination council also accused 93 schools of whole-school (mass) cheating, while 52 supervisors were recommended for blocklisting due to poor supervision, aiding, and abetting during the examinations.
The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer, Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed this while announcing the release of the examination results.
Wushishi said that the erring schools would be invited to the council for discussion, after which appropriate sanctions would be applied.
He said that 1,196,985 candidates, representing 616,398 males and 580,587 females, sat for the examinations, and an additional 1,543 candidates with special needs.
“The number of candidates with Special Needs is 1,542, which includes 913 candidates with hearing impairment, 162 candidates with visual impairment, 103 candidates with Albanism, 61 candidates with Autism, 149 candidates with low vision, and 154 candidates with Adermatoglyphia which are candidates with no fingerprints.
“737,308 representing 61.60 per cent of candidates passed with five Credits and above, 1,013,611 representing 84.68 per cent of candidates had five Credits irrespective of English and Mathematics,” he stated.
