PHOTOS: National Examination Council, NECO June/July SSCE Internal Registration, Eligibility, Guidelines, Fees and Closing Date for 2019/2020.
The National Examination Council, NECO wishes to inform all Secondary School that the sales of form and registration for the June/July Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) is ongoing.
Principals/Commandants of Schools are hereby advised to proceed with the purchase of forms and registration immediately.
See: NECO June/July (SSCE) Examination Results Checker 2018/2019. SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (INTERNAL)
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 not in the School system, i.e. Private Candidates.
The SSCE internal has seventy-six subjects which are grouped into the following six categories.
1. Compulsory Cross-Cutting Subjects
2. Science and Mathematics
3. Technology
4. Humanities
5. Business Studies and
6. Trade/Entrepreneurship.
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)
NECO GUIDELINES FOR 2019/2020 JUNE/JULY SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (SSCE) REGISTRATION
A. ELIGIBILITY FOR REGISTRATION:
Principals/Commandants of Schools are hereby informed that only candidates in their final year of the Senior Secondary School (i.e. SS3) are eligible for registration. For the avoidance of doubt, the June/July 2019/2020 SSCE is meant for only school based candidates in Nigeria and overseas. It is not meant for private candidates. Principals/Commandants of Schools and Ministries of Education should endeavor to enforce the eligibility condition.
B. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE:
The following are the registration procedures for Principals/Commandants of schools presenting bona-fide candidates for 2019 June/July SSCE.
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 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.
Recommended: NECO SSCE (June/July & Nov/Dec) and BECE Offline Registration Software Download.
i. Entry Schedules and Customized CD: School Principals/Commandants are to collect Entry Schedules, Subjects’ Analysis form and Customized CD-ROM for their SS3 Candidates from NECO Offices in their respective States. The collected CD is usable for one year registration period, and it’s not transferable.
ii. Installation of the Software and Registration: Schools shall install the customized registration software on their internet enabled laptop/Desktop and thereafter, commence registration and biometrics information of all candidates presented for SSCE registration.
iii. Registration, Bio-Data Capture and Submission
NOTE:
In order to upload your candidates’ data to the NECO portal and obtain examination numbers, all centres must - be registered
- create their online account
- log in and purchase tokens for their candidates (scratch cards are no longer used)
- have a minimum of 20 candidates
HOW TO UPLOAD CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT (CA) 3
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.
C. REGISTRATION FEES
The following are the approved fees for the examination and other related items:
- Registration fees – 9,850.00 Naira (Mandatory fee)
- Photo album – 1,350.00 Naira per pair – (Mandatory fee)
- Syllabus – 1,200.00 Naira per copy
- Four figure table – 200.00 Naira per copy
- Unviable centre fee – 40,000.00 Naira (for centres that registered less than 20 candidates)
- Late submission of 3rd Year CA fee – 20,000.00 Naira (applies when centres submit their CA3 after the window has closed)
D. MINIMUM NUMBER OF CANDIDATES
The minimum number of candidates to be registered by a school is 20 (Twenty). Any school registering less than twenty candidates shall pay a surcharge of N40,000.00 (Forty Thousand Naira) Only.
E. PHOTO ALBUMS
(a) Photo-albums are to be purchased in pairs. Each photo-album has a provision for 171 candidates. A page has a provision for nine candidates and there are nineteen pages. A pair of photo-album cost
N1,350.00 (One Thousand Three Hundred and Fifty Naira) Only. The candidates photographs pasted in the two photo-albums
MUST BE THE SAME WITH THE ONE USED FOR ON-LINE REGISTRATION. (b) After completion, one copy of the photo-album is to be submitted to NECO State Office while the school retains the other copy.
F. RETURN OF COMPLETED REGISTRATION DOCUMENTS:
School Principals/Commandants shall return a copy of the downloaded on-line data of registered candidates to NECO Office in their respective states.
G. REGISTRATION PERIOD AND CLOSING DATE
(a)
The registration period is between
January 1st, 2019 to May 14th, 2019.(b)
The website will be closed on
14th May, 2019 at 12.00 midnight. Late registration will not be entertained.
(c)
The last date for return of downloaded statistics of the registered candidates by schools to respective NECO State Offices is
May, 2019. H. PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING DATE AGAIN.
(1)
Collection of Entry Schedules by schools as from
January 1st, 2019. (2)
Last date for on-line registration by schools
May 14th, 2019.(3)
Last date for submission of downloaded copies of on-line registration data by schools to State Offices, May, 2019.
Thank you.
Badayi Ahmed Director Examination Administration For: REGISTRAR/CHIEF EXECUTIVE. 
