How To Retrieve Lost Centre/Exams Number WAEC, NECO or NABTEB

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How To Retrieve Lost Centre/Exams Number WAEC, NECO or NABTEB. Have you misplaced your NECO examination number? Lost Your NECO Center Number? Your WAEC Exam Or Center Number? Here Is The Easiest And Fastest Way To Retrieve Your Lost Details.

Retrieve Lost Centre/Exams Number

The national examination council, NECO has a unique 10 digit alphanumeric number it gives each of its candidates. The number serves as the student’s identity, it can also be used to check NECO results when it is released.

The NECO exam number has eight numbers and two alphabets in capital letters. Here is an example; 20514564AD.

These numbers are unique to each student in different years. For example, your NECO exam number for this year might be another person exam number in a different year.

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How to Retrieve NECO Examination Number

NECO has not officially released the way it formulates the exam numbers. Unlike NECO, the West African Examination Council (WAEC) is transparent on how it formulates WAEC exam numbers; 7 of the numbers are the WAEC centre number while the last three are the seat numbers.

Visit a NECO office in your state and provide the following information;

  • Full name.
  • Year of the exam.
  • Name of school where the exam was written.

Armed with this information, a national examination council official will run a search on the NECO database with the information you provided. Viola! your NECO examination number would be given to you.

As at the time of publishing this article, NECO does not charge its candidates to retrieve exam numbers. However, policies may change in the future. So, it’s smart to go to the NECO office with some money.

Have you recently tried to retrieve your NECO exam number? Tell us your experience via the comment section below.

Also, we have an article on how to retrieve WAEC exam number.

How to Get Lost NABTEB Centre/Exams Number Back

As at the time of this post, NABTEB doesn’t give an official list of their centres and their attached numbers. Hence, you may not have direct access to such information through me.

1. Check Online for the Exams Number: However, I had done some findings for you. I got a link to the list of their centres up to 2017.

It’s possible that, by the time you are (or anyone else is) reading this post, the exams body has restored the list. You can copy and paste the link to your browser – http://demo.nabtebnigeria.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/NABTEB_CENTRES.pdf

You may be lucky.

Meanwhile, if it opens by any chance, it may still not contain the centre numbers. If it does, best of luck.

2. Travel Back to the Centre, Call the Coordinator or Send a Proxy

If the suggestion above doesn’t work, you should consider traveling back to the town of your exams and ask for this number directly from the centre.

Those centres should keep records of individual applicants too.

You can skip that hurdle if you still have phone access to the centre or there’s anybody who can help you get their number.

Another means is to send a person you know in the town or around to help you contact the centre and get their number.

3. Contact a Candidate for the Same Exams

In most cases, candidates who still have access to a friend or colleague that wrote the exams at the same centre with them can get the centre number form such other candidates.

Once your old friend still has his exams slip or photocard with them, he can help you with the centre number.

This works even for those people who had forgotten both the centre number and their seat numbers.

Once you know someone behind or in front of him during the exams, you get your way out.

What you do is get the candidate in front or at the back and ask for his or her number.

Then, you add 1 or minus 1 from the seat number to get yours.

I want to believe one of the suggestions above will help you out of this mess.


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      Schily: Federal science and technical college ikare ondo state

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    • Digital Loop says:
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      At the moment NECO does not retrieve lost photocard but you can retrieve your examination number. Please chat Digital Loop on 080**445820 on WhatsApp…No calls but WhatsApp chat alone. Digital Loop is a specialized digital transformation agency that makes the retrieval possible.

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        Please I lost my original certificate and photocopies at hand pls how do I retrieve my registration number for further process

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      • Akanbi Glory says:
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        sir/ma I lost my exam number 19/20 exams , I’m Akanbi Glory Omowunmi
        I wrote the exam at Patterson Memorial Baptist Grammar School,idi aba, Abeokuta Ogun state. I will look forward for your reply. Thanks.

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        Please i can’t remember my Neco exam number because I have never used the result. Kindly help out.

        Surname: Adelakun
        First name: Temitope
        Middle name: Oluseun
        Center: Baptist High School Ejigbo Osun State
        Year: 2008

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    Neco2021
    From taraba state Please I wish you to help me and find my exam number. Thanks

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  11. Muhammad Haladu says:
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    Government sciences secondary school Bombe state

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  14. Abayomi Abiodun says:
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  15. Onyeka Augusta Chidalu says:
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    Please how can I retrieve my Neco exam number and registration num
    Onyeka Augusta Chidalu
    2019
    God’s will international school Nnewi Anambra state

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  17. OKUNLOLA QUAMDEEN ABAYOMI says:
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    Please Sir/Ma I need your assistance with my Exam No and Pin No…Sir/Ma please kindly help me run a search on the NECO database with my information,

    Full name: OKUNLOLA QUAMDEEN ABAYOMI

    Year of exam: 2018

    Name of school: MILLENNIUM SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL EGBEDA, LAGOS.

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    • NGSchoolz Staff says:
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      Kindly go through the above steps, if you don’t understand anything, kindly ask question where you are confused.

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      • Chidiuto Louisa says:
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        Is there any other way apart from going to Neco office?

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  18. Ekeanyanwu Oluchi Esther says:
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    • NGSchoolz Staff says:
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      Kindly go through the above steps, if you don’t understand anything, kindly ask question where you are confused.

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  19. stephen emmanuel says:
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  23. Arubayi Godswealth says:
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    Name: Arubayi Godswealth
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    Year: 2020
    School: pillars secondary school ikorodu

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  27. David olamide says:
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    Name: David Olamide Emmanuel
    School: Igbo-ora secondary school Igbo-ora
    exam year: 2019

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  28. Akanbi Glory says:
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    sir/ma I lost my neco exam number 19/20 exams , I’m Akanbi Glory Omowunmi
    I wrote the exam at Patterson Memorial Baptist Grammar School,idi aba, Abeokuta Ogun state. I will look forward for your reply. Thanks.

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  32. Lydia chinaza ude says:
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    Please help me my neco registration number 2016/2017

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  34. Augustine Kingsley says:
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    Please I lost my 2019 neco gce examination number and registration number
    I did it at immaculate college ifon

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  35. Sandra Ezeakonobi Chinwendu says:
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    Please how can I retrieve my neco registration number and exam . I went to neco office at utaco they said they can’t help me. I wrote the exam on 20/13 at Immaculate heart secondary school suleja Niger state. Name is Ezeakonobi sandra.please I really need it urgently. God bless you sir or ma.

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  36. Pamela Ajifa says:
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    How do I deal with dat??

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  37. Mr best says:
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    Send a message to this operator on WhatsApp with your full name DOB center name and phone number and note NOTHING OF VALUE IS FREE. Thanks

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  38. Chidiuto Louisa says:
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    Please I lost my Neco registration number
    How do I retrieve it?

    Ogbaji’s Louisa Chidiuto
    20/09/2006
    2022 jun/jul
    Great Micheal’s comprehensive college

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  39. Jessica says:
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  40. Johnson Friday Sunday says:
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    Please I have forgotten my Neco exam number and pin
    How can I check my result online?

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  41. Okoh maryann chinecherem says:
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    Please help me to retrieve my neco examination number
    Full name: Ugwu Daniel
    Year:2014
    School name: Comprehensive secondary school Akpasha Enugu

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  42. Editor Mukwenya says:
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    I forgot my exam number 2013 intake GCE.. I wrote from Kabuloga girls

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  43. Mercy says:
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    2019 GCE
    Government Secondary School Akamkpa

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  44. Enwere Prince Samuel says:
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    Year: 2022
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  46. Idris Basirat Abiodun says:
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    PLEASE help j misplaced my NECO examination number
    Name: Idris Basirat Abiodun
    School: universal white hall, fagba Lagos
    Year: 2012

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  48. Godswill Sunday usen says:
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  49. Godswill Sunday usen says:
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    Please I need my neco examination number I misplace it salvation ar
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    Please I need it

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    • OKEKE-OGUAJU PAULINE N says:
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  50. OKEKE-OGUAJU PAULINE N says:
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  51. Marvellous owie says:
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    Name_marvellous owie
    Year_2022
    Name of school_jafield high school

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  52. Marvellous owie says:
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    Please help me to check my neco results
    Name_marvellous owie
    Date_2022
    Name of school_jafield high school

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