The Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal is the examination conducted for candidates in their final year of Senior Secondary School.
76 subjects are usually examined in the SSCE Internal, which are categorized as follows:
NOTE: All candidates must offer the 4 cross-cutting compulsory subjects. Candidates are to offer 3-4 subjects from their area of specialization and 1 elective outside their field of specialization provided the total number of subjects is not more than nine (9). The minimum number of subjects is eight (8)
Schools (centres) are to register their candidates using the offline application before logging online to the NECO registration portal www.neco.gov.ng to effect payment of registration and other mandatory fees before uploading the candidates’ data.
The minimum number of candidates to be registered by a school for SSCE 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 come up with candidates list (Validation document) and take it to NECO state office for validation, NECO will allocate the number of candidates validated and then allocate quota to the centre. Centres will then 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.
The following are the approved fees for the examination and other related items:
2020 app only works for 2020. If you understand the process of registering your candidates, you are ready to start capturing their data!
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
For more information about the Exams schedule, you can download the timetable below.
As part of the requirements for the SSCE (Internal), all schools (centres) are to submit their candidates’ third year continuous assessment scores (CA3)
NECO will announce the date when centres can upload the CA3 from the offline registration app.
The offline application will not allow you to add CA3 for the candidates, before the announcement of the date for the submission of CA3.
As soon as the window for the upload is open, schools (centres) should fill in the CA3 using the offline application. Once this is done, the entries should be synchronized to the online application.
If a centre does not send the CA3 within the stipulated period, a penalty of 20,000 Naira must be paid online from the centre’s account before the CA3 can be uploaded.
Results will not be released for schools (centres) that fail to upload the CA3 for their candidates.
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:
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