The Director-General of Kaduna State Schools Quality Assurance Authority, KSSQAA, Mrs Umma Ahmad has announced the release of the 2020 Basic Education Certification Examination (BECE) results, with 73.4 percent of the candidates said to have passed.
This is contained in a statement personally signed by Ahmad and made available to ASHENEWS on Tuesday.
According to her, a total of 131,214 candidates sat for the examination out of which 96,268 (73.4%) passed in all the subjects, adding that a total of 1,584 schools, made up of 452 public and 1,132 private schools participated in the examination between September 21 and 28, 2020.
“KSSQAA recorded an increase in the number of candidates that registered for the examination in 2020 because of the state government’s free education policy. The general performance of the students is very impressive. 95,472 passed mathematics; 96,128 students passed English and 81,824 students passed Basic Science and Technology,” Mrs Ahmad stated.
She further stated that the students sat for the examination in Mathematics, English, Basic Science and Technology, National Values, Pre-vocational Studies, Business Studies, Hausa, Cultural and Creative Arts, Islamic Religious Studies, Christian Religious Studies and Arabic.
While stating that six public schools were among the 10 best performing schools, Mrs Ahmad added that Government Secondary School (GSS) Zuturung Kanyi emerged the overall best followed by GSS Kabam and Shalom Royal College, Trikania, Kaduna, a private school, emerged third.
The DG advised parents, caregivers and candidates to check the results at their respective examination centers.
