NECO has released the 2025 SSCE results, with 60.26% of candidates earning five credits including English and Math.
Officials hailed reduced malpractice cases and confirmed plans to pilot computer-based testing soon.
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE Internal), 54 days after the conclusion of the last paper.
Announcing the results in Minna, Niger State, on Wednesday, NECO Registrar Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi revealed that out of 1,358,339 candidates who sat for the June/July exam, 818,492 (60.26%) obtained five credits and above, including Mathematics and English.
A total of 1,144,496 candidates (84.26%) scored five credits or above, regardless of their scores in English and Mathematics.
Key statistics
- Registered candidates: 1,367,210 (685,514 males, 681,696 females)
- Candidates who sat: 1,358,339 (680,292 males, 678,047 females)
- Special needs candidates: 1,622 (including 586 males and 355 females with hearing impairment; 111 males and 80 females with visual impairment)
- Malpractice cases: 3,878 (down 61.58% from 10,094 in 2024)
Wushishi commended the reduction in malpractice, though 38 schools across 13 states were found guilty of mass cheating and will face sanctions.
Additionally, nine supervisors from Rivers, Niger, FCT, Kano, and Osun States were recommended for blacklisting over misconduct, including aiding malpractice and poor supervision.
- Kano: 68,159 candidates (5.02%) with five credits and above, including English and Math
- Lagos: 67,007 candidates (4.93%)
- Oyo: 48,742 candidates
- Lowest performance: Gabon centre, where no candidate achieved five credits with English and Math
The exam faced disruptions in Adamawa State’s Lamorde LGA, where communal clashes between July 7 and 25 halted exams in eight schools, affecting 13 subjects and 29 papers. NECO is in talks with the state government to reschedule those exams.
Wushishi also confirmed that NECO has now streamlined its SSCE to 38 subjects under the revised national curriculum, a move expected to reduce result processing time. The Council is also piloting a shift from the traditional paper-pencil test (PPT) model to computer-based testing (CBT) in selected schools.
