The Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) is the examination conducted for candidates in their final year of Junior Secondary School. It is used for transition from JSS 3 of the basic education class to the senior secondary school. While each state of the federation and the FCT conduct the BECE for their candidates, NECO conducts for Federal Unity Colleges and other allied institutions. Interested private secondary schools also take the examination, provided they are permitted by their States Ministries of Education. BECE certificate replaces the primary school certificate as the first school leaving certificate.
The BECE grading system is as follows:
A – Distinction
B – Upper Credit
C – Lower Credit
P – Pass
F – Fail
The minimum number of candidates to be registered by a school for BECE Internal is twenty(20). Any centre registering less than 20 candidates is deemed unviable.
Note:
Registration cards will no longer be used with effect from 2019. Schools (Centres) are to log in to the NECO portal and pay the registration fees into the NECO TSA online using the payment options. Once payment is successful, the candidates’ data can be uploaded from the offline app and only then will exam numbers be generated for the candidates.
Schools (centres) are to register their candidates using the offline application before login in
The following are the approved fees for the examination and other related items:
- Registration fees – 8,700.00 Naira (Mandatory fee)
- Late Registration – 2,000.00 Naira per candidate – (Mandatory fee)
- Re-Sit Exam – 3,000.00 Naira per subject per candidate
- Correction of Name – 2,500.00 Naira per candidate
- Unviable Fee – 12,500.00 Naira (for centres that registered less than 20 candidates)
Click the button below to find out more about examination fees.
Click to begin BECE registration
DOWNLOAD THE 2022 OFFLINE REGISTRATION APP
You can either download the app directly using the download button below or use the 5-easy steps guide to install a light version (called PWA). Both methods work perfectly.
For more information about the detailed offline app, you can download the user guide
For more information about registration procedure, you can download the guidelines
Note:
In order to upload your candidates’ data to the NECO portal and obtain examination numbers, all centres must
- register candidates offline
- validate candidates from NECO state office
- purchase quota for the number of validated candidates
- centre must be activated after candidate validation (centre not activated cannot make payment)
- create/login into their online account
- purchase quota for validated candidates (scratch cards are no longer used)
- have a minimum of 20 candidates or pay unviable fee
Examination Timetable
For more information about the 2022 BECE Examination Timetable, you can download the timetable below.
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With the new NECO Results system, candidates can visit the Results portal to check their results using token.
Tokens can be obtained in two ways:
- By creating an account, login-in and purchasing the token online using the payment options
- By purchasing the token and sharing with another candidate via email or printing it out.
A token can only be associated to one candidate’s unique exam number.
Each token cannot be used more than 5 times to view a candidate’s result
