NECO: National Examination Council releases 2025 SSCE results, records 60% pass
By Millicent Umoru
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2025 May/June Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results.
NECO Registrar, professor Dantani Wushishi, announced the result at the NECO Headquarters in Minna, Niger State, on Wednesday.
Mr Wushishi said 1,367,210 candidates –comprising 685,514 males and 681,696 females– registered for the examinations.
However, 1,358,339 candidates – comprising 680,292 males and 678,047 females– sat for the examination.
He explained that the results were released exactly 54 days after the last paper was written.
”The 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) was conducted from Monday, 16 June to Friday 25, July, 2025, while the Marking Exercise took place from Thursday 14 to Sunday 31, August, 2025,” he said.
Pass rate
According to Mr Wushishi, 60.26 per cent (818,492) of the 1.3 million candidates who sat the internal examinations secured at least a credit in five subjects including English Language and Mathematics –one of the prerequisites for admissions into Nigerian tertiary institutions.
Pass rate for the NECO results has hovered around 60 per cent in the last four years. It was 60.55 percent last year, 61.60 per cent in 2023 and 60 per cent in 2022.
He added that 84.26 per cent secured five credits and above irrespective of Mathematics and English.
Last year this figure was 83.90 per cent of the candidates.
Special needs candidates
He said 1,622 candidates with special needs sat the examinations, with 941 of them with hearing impairment, 191 with visual impairment, 100 with albinism, 95 with autism, 110 with low vision, and 185 with Adermatoglyphia.
In 2024, 2,267 candidates with special needs sat the examinations, with 1,104 of them having hearing impairment; 348 with visual impairment; 342 with albinism; 237 with autism, and 236 with low vision.
Malpractice
The NECO boss added that 3,878 candidates engage in examination malpractices “as against 10,094 in 2024, which shows a reduction of 61.5 per cent”.
In 2023, NECO had 12,030 candidates involved in examinations malpractice. In 2022, it was 13,595.
