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ABOUT NECO EXAM

According to Wikipedia the National Examination Council (also known as NECO) is an examination body in Nigeria that conducts the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination and the General Certificate in Education in June/July and November/December respectively.

NECO exam is a PEN and Paper exam type examination comprising of Objectives, Theory and Practicals. NECO results takes a maximum of 3months to gets released.

NECO SYLLABUS

The syllabus is a complete for your usage. Use it diligently and success will be at your finger tips.

Who Can Apply For The Exam (Eligibility)

Principals/Commandants of schools are hereby informed that only candidates in their final year of Senior Secondary School i.e. (SS3) are eligible for registration. For the avoidance of doubt, the SSCE (I) is meant for only school-based candidates in Nigeria and overseas. It is not meant for private candidates. Principals/Commandants of schools and States Ministries of Education should endeavour to enforce the eligibility condition.

June/July NECO Registration Procedure

The following are the registration procedures for Principals/Commandants of schools presenting bona-fide candidates for 20201 June/July SSCE.

The SSCE (I) registration will be both OFFLINE and ONLINE.

Offline Registration

Schools are to install the 2022 SSCE (I) offline application by downloading from the Council’s website: www.neco.gov.ng. The user manual on the step-by-step offline and online registration procedure can also be downloaded from the Council’s website. Schools are to make all entries of their candidates’ bio-data offline and intermittently synchronize online to avoid loss of data.

Ensure that all prospective Candidates are registered offline, such that as they pay, they could be uploaded online progressively. Please note that a candidate is only NECO registered if his/her offline entries are uploaded online to obtain a registration number. Online upload is only possible upon payment of registration fees.

Biometrics Data Capturing

Biometric data capturing is a process by which candidates’ fingerprints (10 fingers) are captured during offline registration. The Biometric application can be downloaded from the Council’s website or through the SSCE Internal Dashboard. It is a vital part of the offline registration because without it, candidates’ data cannot be uploaded online. FUTRONIC (FSBOH) should be used for the data capturing.

Schools are to ensure that candidates crosscheck their data (Name, Picture, Date of Birth, Sex, Subjects) on the preview page during the biometric capturing and can go back to the Offline application to correct any error detected by the candidate(s).
The Council should be notified of any physically challenged candidate(s) whose fingerprints cannot be captured during offline registration process.
Schools should NOTE that:

Duplication of registration will not be entertained since no two biometric data are the same.
No person(s)/candidate(s) should be allowed to capture their fingerprints on behalf of the rightful candidate(s) as any candidate whose biometric data does not match the data uploaded during verification exercise will be deemed to be impersonating.

Offline Validation

After successful offline NECO registration, schools are to do the offline bio-data validation before uploading registration data online. Candidates are to check and make all corrections of Name, Picture, Date of Birth, Sex, Subjects etc., before uploading the registration data online.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THE COUNCIL IS NOT LIABLE FOR REGISTRATION ERRORS. ALL REGISTRATION ERRORS MUST BE CORRECTED DURING THE VALIDATION PROCESS BEFORE UPLOADING THE REGISTRATION ONLINE.

Procedure for Offline Validation

Where errors are discovered, candidates should correct such errors on the photocard and sign in the appropriate column. Where there are no errors, Candidates should just sign the appropriate column. All signed photocards are to be returned to the person doing the registration to enter all corrections in the offline application.

After effecting all corrections, the validation list should be printed and given to candidates to further confirm that all the corrections they made on their photocards (if any) have been duly effected. Where Candidates discover on the Validation List that the error(s) were not effected, the attention of the person doing the registration should be drawn to effect the correction(s). Candidates should append their signatures on the corrected copy of the Validation list against their respective names. The signed offline validation list is one of the documents to be returned to respective NECO State Offices along with other Validation Documents.

School Activation

Each School must be activated by the NECO State Officer of each respective State & FCT before payment and upload could be possible. Schools are to return the Validation Documents to their respective State Officers, who would thereafter, activate the School for payment of the required candidates to conclude the registration.
The validation Documents to be returned to NECO State Offices before activation are:

Validation List
Candidates’ signed Photocards
Entry Schedule duly endorsed by the State Ministry of Education
Subject Analysis

Schools are to note that Centre activation commences on ~~1st April, 2021~~.

Payment Procedure for NECO Registration and Upload

All payments should strictly be made through the school’s online NECO portal. Upon successful payment, registration quota is allocated according to the amount paid into the NECO TSA. After the quota is allocated, schools can select the individual candidates to upload (if the payment is not f or all candidates) by checking the selection boxes against each candidate’s name or clicking the “check all “box to select the entire candidates, if the payment is for all the candidates. Note that when paying in instalments, initial payment should be made for at least 20 candidates to avoid being surcharged for unviable centre fee.

After successful payment, quotas allocated and the payment receipt is sent to the administrator’s email address. Schools can also print their payment receipt from the transaction history in their school profile and submit a copy to the NECO State Office along with the final Validation list that carries Candidates’ registration numbers. The allocated quota would be used to upload and register candidates. After successful upload, registration numbers are automatically assigned to each registered candidate on both the final photocard and validation list.

Immediately after completion of the registration, schools should print the final validation list and give all candidates to sign against their respective names. The payment receipt and the signed final validation list should be endorsed by the School Principal/Commandant before submission to NECO State Office. The final photocards that bear the candidates’ registration numbers are to be used for admission of candidates into the examination hall(s), as well as for candidates’ biometric verification exercise during the examination.

Minimum Number of Candidates Required for NECO Registration

The minimum number of candidates to be registered by a school is 20 (twenty).
Any school registering less than twenty candidates is deemed unviable and as such shall pay unviable centre fee of Forty Thousand Naira (N40,000) only, if they wish to write the examination in their school.

NECO Registration E-Photo Albums

The electronic photo albums will be generated by the Council. A pair of purchased e-photo album will be endorsed and a copy sent to your school.

Each e-photo album has provision for 171 candidates. A pair of e-photo album costs One Thousand, Three Hundred and Fifty Naira (N1,350) only.

Cost of NECO Syllabus And Four-Figure Table

The syllabus for NECO SSCE is available at the cost of One Thousand Two Hundred Naira (N1,200) only per copy and each school is advised to have at least four (4) copies. Furthermore, each candidate is to obtain a copy of NECO four-figure tables at the cost of Two Hundred Naira (N200.00) only.

3rd Year Continuous Assessment Scores (CA3)

The period for CA3 entries by schools is from 1st July – 17th August 2021. Schaols should ensure that they use the.offline application to make entries for CA3, within the stipulated period and ensure complet e upload.
Procedure for CA3 entry and upload:

Login to the Offline portal
Click on Third Year CA menu
Select the Candidate
Make entries for CA3
Connect to online and upload

Any school that fails to upload the CA3 within the stipulated period stated above, will not have result until it pays late submission penalty fee of Twenty Thousand Naira (N20,000.00) only and also upload the CA3.

NECO Registration Closing Date

a. The registration period is between ~~Monday 13th December, 2021 and Monday 30th May, 2023.~~
b. The website will be closed at 12:00 midnight on 30th May, 2023.
c. The last date for return of printed payment receipt and endorsed final validation list is Friday
17th June, 2022.Monday, 5th July, 2023.

~~PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING DATE AGAIN.~~
Commencement of registration by schools is from Monday 13th December, 2023.
b. Last date for registration by schools is 30th May, 2023.
c. Last date for submission of printed payment receipt and endorsed final validation list is 30th May, 2023
d. Last date for upload of CA3 online is 20th August, 2023
e. The Examination will hold from 20th June to 6th August, 2023

How to Pass NECO Examination

1. Understand the structure of the Exam paper

First of all, understand the structure of the Exam paper – is there any marks allocation for a particular topic?
Secondly, if there is marks allocation, is examiner following it? The best thing to do is to review the past five years exam papers.
What is the key topic i.e. examiner’s favorite? Is there any article by examiner in the student magazine? Study that topic and prepare for it, even if you don’t like it!

2. Taking notes

Prepare for exams by way of ‘notes’ which you can recall quickly at the time of taking exam. This will help in two manner. First, when you write, you are in better picture of giving your mind instruction through written letters. Secondly, you can revise from your notes instead of opening text books when exam day is near.
Here is my strategy for taking notes:
Take a paper and turn it in landscape format.
Put three columns in landscape form.
Once done, take synopsis of a chapter in smaller fonts and the language which you can easily understand.
Write bullet points, important concepts and key ideas which you need to remember.
These notes should be used at the time when paper is on head and you need to revise whole subject in two to three hours.

3. No limiting belief please

Remove the limiting belief that you can’t pass.
If you believe you can pass or you believe you cannot pass, you are right.
I have seen students under the impression that examiner is their enemy. Please don’t think so. Pass percentage might be low, but students do pass their exams. So, don’t think that you will be in a failure category ever.

4. Don’t annoy examiner

See for spelling errors and writing style. Writing needs to be legible and understandable. As a teacher to many students, I have noticed that spelling errors and the way students write, at times, is not understandable. Examiner has very less time to check paper. If your paper is examiner friendly, you are going to attract good marks.

5. Time your paper

Here is technique to time your paper: Take total marks and total time. Subtract 10 minutes from the total minutes. Divide the remainder with the marks and you get time per marks
example: If there are 100 marks for a paper and you have 180 minutes. Subtract 10 minutes. This means you have 170 minutes altogether or 1.7 minutes per mark.
make sure that you don’t spend more that 1.7 minutes per mark e.g. if a question is of 10 marks, maximum time you should spend should be 17 minutes.
It happens that students try to focus on one particular question and if they are unable to solve it, they get confused. Don’t panic. Start next question. If student has time, he / she can take up that particular question later on.
Try to allocate 10 minutes at the end of exam to review the paper thoroughly.

6. Remembering / memorizing key ideas and formulae

One of the key ideas to memorize ideas e.g. formulae, is to write them in small charts and hang it in front of your bed.
See those formulae daily before going to bed and rising up.
Use different colours and markers.
Believe me, in my statistics paper, I was recalling the formulae in the exact colours which I wrote on charts.

7. Exam practice

Practice mock exam – be your own examiner.
Take any past paper and solve it as a mock exam.
Solve past paper in the time allocated in exam. Think you are in exam hall and solve the paper accordingly.
Check your paper and give yourself marks.
See how are you performing in mock exam and be sincere to yourself.

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