NABTEB results out

Olatunde Aworanti

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board has announced the results for the 2015 May/June National Business Certificate/National Technical Certificate examinations.

The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the board, Dr. Olatunde Aworanti, who made the announcement in Benin, the Edo State capital, on Thursday, said that 19,000 candidates scored five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics.

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Aworanti explained that the figure represented 54.09 per cent of a total of 75, 468 candidates who sat for the examinations. He added that this was 12.91 per cent lower than last year’s figure.

The registrar, who said that 54,016 candidates, representing 70.25 per cent, had five credit and above, with or without English and Mathematics, noted that 15,848 sat for the Engineering Trade, 6,846 entered for Construction Trades; 1,710 for Miscellaneous Trades; and 16,818 for Business Trades.

He said that the board had pruned down the number of examination centres which he said was responsible for the reduction in examination malpractice to 1.9 per cent, representing 2,079 incidences.

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