Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has launched the outcomes of 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, introduced the discharge of the outcomes yesterday at a press convention, held on the board’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja.
LEADERSHIP studies that over 1.9 million candidates registered and sat for the examination in 118 cities and over 700 centres throughout the nation.
The examination which started on Friday, April 18 ended on Monday, April 29, 2024.
Oloyede, who stated the direct entry registration remains to be ongoing, disclosed that out of a complete of 1,989,668 registered candidates, 80, 810 had been absent whereas a complete of 1, 904, 189 sat for the UTME inside the six days of the examination.
“The board is in the present day releasing the outcomes of 1,842, 464 candidates, 64, 624 outcomes are underneath investigation for causes of:
“Below investigation on verification (2, 896), procedural investigation of candidates (4, 594), centre based mostly investigation (57, 056) in 18 centres: Edo 12; Akwa Ibom 3; Delta 2 and Kwara 1; alleged examination misconduct (78).”
Giving the evaluation of the outcomes, the JAMB Registrar stated over 8,401 candidates, representing 0.5 % scored 300 and above, 8,401, 77,070 representing 4.2 % scored 250 and above, 439,974 representing 24 % scored 200 and above, whereas 1,402, 490 representing 76 % scored under 200.
Nonetheless, the Board suggested candidates to make use of the telephone numbers they used to register and textual content “RESULT to 55019/66019,” to get their outcomes.
It added, “There isn’t a must method any CBT centre or cybercafé to examine outcomes. The next are the responses to be anticipated therefore, a candidate with a outcome will obtain the message:
“Pricey “Candidate X”, your result’s as follows (and the main points will probably be offered).
“These being processed and people absent would obtain “underneath processing” and “absent” respectively.
“These underneath investigation would obtain verification investigation, underneath Investigation and alleged Infraction.
“There isn’t a doubt that the 2024 UTME would lengthy be remembered as one of the crucial revolutionary variations within the annals of Laptop-Primarily based Testing by the Board.
“The successes recorded, significantly when it comes to decreased infractions, present that the Board’s processes are getting higher with every successive train,” it stated.
Oloyede additionally said that the Board, in the intervening time, conducts examination in 9 international centres specifically: Abidjan, Ivory Coast; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Buea, Cameroon; Cotonou, Republic of Benin; London, United Kingdom; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; and Johannesburg, South Africa.
The essence of the international part of the examination, he stated is to market establishments within the nation to the skin world in addition to guaranteeing that our universities replicate the universality of educational traditions, amongst others.
He stated the board is at present fine-tuning preparations for the conduct of the 2024 UTME in these international centres.
On the difficulty of high scorers in 2024 UTME, he stated it could be unrealistic or presumptive to say a selected candidate is the very best scorer given the truth that such a candidate could, within the remaining evaluation, not even be admitted.
“Nonetheless, owing to public demand and to keep away from a repeat of the Mmesoma saga in addition to present a information for these, who could need to award prizes to those set of high-performing candidates, the Board appeals to all involved to at all times confirm claims by candidates earlier than providing such awards,” Oloyede stated.
Talking on the brand new strategies of accepting or rejecting admissions, the registrar stated both a candidate sends “Settle for/Reject” on his devoted telephone line to 55019/66019; or a candidate accepts or rejects any admission provide (programme change inclusive) along with his/her fingerprint (biometric) at an accredited CBT centre or at any JAMB Workplace.
He, nonetheless, lamented that undue parental affect stays one of many challenges being encountered by the Board in the midst of performing its statutory roles.