Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, the Registrar, National Examination Council (NECO), explained on Saturday why cut-off marks for the National Common Entrance Examination(NCEE) into unity colleges varies from state to state. Garba spoke to newsmen in Abuja after he monitored the National Common Entrance interview into Federal Government Colleges, at Government Secondary School, Wuse Zone 3. Represented by Mr Abdul Mustapha, the Abuja Liaison Officer of NECO, Garba said that it was not actually the score alone that determines whether a child qualifies or not. “In every state, ranking is done; if you want to admit 6000 students in a state for instance, then you rank from the score of the first person to where the score of the 6000th person stops and that becomes the cut-off mark. “Performances vary from state to state; you hear parents say I am from so and so state and my child score high but was not admitted but another child from another state was admitted. “It is so because the c...
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