A total 9,246 candidates failed the Batch A professional qualifying exams held in July.
Results released by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) show only 75%–that’s a total 28,094—passed the exam.
The council’s registrar Josiah Olusegun Ajiboye said, “About 44,363 candidates registered for the examination but the total examined was 37,340 candidates. Due to the prevalence of Covid-19 and something like that, a large number of candidates could not move around or write the exam.”
He noted that they have about 7,023 candidates that didn’t write the exam, saying, majority of them have actually written the exam before and will be allowed to write the exam at the next available opportunity.
While saying the performance recorded in the exam was encouraging, the TRCN boss said the exam was introduced as a gate-keeping measure for the teaching profession.
“We can see that it is a fair result- 75.24 percent is not bad. Gradually we are beginning to see that the pre-service teachers are getting familiarised with the use of computers. Initially when we started the failure was very high.
“The major reason we introduced the teacher qualifying exam is that we felt it is not possible for everybody to just walk in to the profession and just register like that (without writing an exam),” he said.
Meanwhile, Lagos State with 3,574 candidates had the highest number of candidates that sat for the TRCN July’s professional qualifying exam while Ekiti State with 235 candidates had the least number.
The next batch of the Professional Qualifying Exam is expected to take place in early November, 2020.
