NECO introduces customised answer scripts to curtail Examination malpractice

The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof Promise Okplala says the Council has introduced the use of customised answer scripts for its examination.

Okpala told reporters on Tuesday, in Abuja that the customised answer scripts would  tackle the challenge of hoarding of remnants of answer scripts by invigilators.

He said such “left over scripts’’ are then sold by the supervisors to fraudsters who engaged in various forms of examination malpractice.

“The Nigeria of those days is not possible in 2012. They (Examination fraudsters) have so many ways of cheating and we, on our part are always coming out with ways to counter them.

“These customised scripts appear alike, but every paper has a unique secret code. So if you use the answer script for English Language, for instance, to answer Biology, we will fish you out,” he said.

The Registrar explained that the secret code was only known to three people and would only be revealed to the invigilator an hour before the examination. Read More