This is the examination taken by candidates in their last stage of Secondary School Education. The SSCE is in two categories. One is for candidates in the third and final year of their Senior Secondary Education and it is called
SSCE Internal while the Second is SSCE External and is for candidates that are not in the School system, i.e. Private Candidates.
EXTERNAL
Another core component of the mandate of the Council as espoused in the enabling law is the conduct of the Senior School Certificate Examination for External candidates.
Payment and Online Registration Process
Biometric Registration Process
The NECO SSCE Ext Registration fee is:
Seventeen Thousand Eight Hundred Naira (N17,800.00) only.
Stamp Duty N50.00.
All payments should be made into NECO Treasury Single Account (TSA) SSCE (E) NECO portal.
*Note
Candidates sitting for Mathematics and Physics are required to purchase Four Figure Table.
Download the Biometric App
If you understand the process of registering your candidates, you are ready to start capturing their biometric data!
For more information about the detailed offline app, click the button below to download the userguide
For more information about registration procedure, you can download the guidelines
*Note
In order to upload candidates’ data to the NECO portal online and obtain examination numbers, a candidate must
- be registered
- either have an online account or have it created for him/her by a cyber café
- log in to the created account and purchase registration token (s) (scratch cards are no longer used for SSCE External registration)
You can upload the list of centers under ‘centers’ on the homepage menu.
Examination Timetable
For more information about the Exams 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
