The National Examinations Council on Tuesday released the results of the 2017 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination
as 32,917 candidates out of  42,429 candidates that sat for the examinations scored 5 credits and above.

The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO,Prof. Charles Uwakwe, who spoke at the council’s headquarters in Minna said the release of the results
is coming barely 38 days after the examinations were conducted.

In the analysis for candidates’ general performance by States,
Ogun state has the best result as 4,766 students out of the 5,213 that sat obtained five credits and above in all subjects representing 91.42%
while Zamfara state records the worst result with only 24 out of the 186 candidates obtained 5 credits and above representing 12.90%.

According to Uwakwe “a total of 42,985 candidates registered, out of which 42,429 sat for the examinations, and the number of candidates with
five credits including Mathematics and English Language put at 24,098 (56.79%)”.

A total number of 41,429 candidates sat for English language
with 29,258 credit pass representing 70.62%, while out of the 41,485 that sat for Mathematics, a total 32,701 candidates got credit pass representing 78.82%.

While putting the number of candidates with malpractice cases at 4,425 representing 10.43%. This according to Prof. Uwakwe represents 5.9%
reduction in cases compared to 2016.

In the malpractice chart, Plateau state records the highest case with 943 candidates representing 21.31%,
with FCT-Abuja, Kogi, Ondo and Taraba states with least in malpractices recording zero cases representing 0.00%. Mathematics has the highest
case with 728 candidates involved.

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2017 NECO Exams: Plateau had highest cases of exam malpractice in federation