JAMB releases UTME results, says 47
candidates scored above 250 points
By LAIDE AKINBOADE
ABUJA – THE Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board, JAMB, Thrusday,
said only 47 candidates scored 250 and
above in the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and
Dual Based Test (DBT) modes of the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) conducted across
the country last Saturday.
The Registrar/Chief Executive of
JAMB,Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, stated this in
Abuja, while announcing the release of
the 2014 UTME results.
He said only 24 candidates scored 250
and above in the PPT while 23
candidates scored 250 and above in the
DBT.
The JAMB boss while breaking down
the result of her 6th edition of the UTME
on the two modes, Ojerinde disclosed
that in PPT, 275,282 candidates scored
below 150, 122,157 scored 150-159;
115,456 scored 160-169, 315,401
candidates scored 170-199 while
108,488 candidates scored 200-249.
According to him, “In DBT, 2,471
candidates scored below 150, 2,830
scored 150-159, 3,808 scored 160-169;
6,678 candidates also scored between
170-199 while 1,309 candidates scored
200-249.
“A total of 990,179 candidates applied
for PPT while 25,325 candidates applied
for DBT which amounts to 1,015,504
applicants”.
Prof Ojerinde said universities have
highest number of applicants as first
choice as not less than 995,901
candidates choose universities as their
first choice of institution, 13, 761
candidates choose polytechnics as first
choice; 20, 558 opted for colleges of
education while 32 candidates choose
innovative enterprise institute as their
first choice.
Speaking on the conduct of the exams,
Prof Ojerinde said “the examination
was one of the most successfully
conducted exercise ever by the Board”.
He said from the two modes of exam
conducted, there was a total of 36,164
invalid results, 2,494 results were with-
held by the board for further
scrutinising while 37,315 candidates
were absent form the exams.
Also, a total of one thousand, eight
hundred and sixty-five centres were
used for the conduct of PPT and one
hundred and thirty-three centres were
used for DBT across the federal.
“In this year’s exercise the Board
experienced a remarkable decrease in
the number of applicants that
registered for the PPT.
“This reduction in number is attributed
to the growing confidence of
candidates in the Computer Based Test
(CBT), which definitely will be full blown
by 2015.
“Please take note, the 2014 CBT exercise
will take place from Saturday, 17th May,
2014 to Saturday, 31st May, 2014″, he
said.
On exhibits recovered from centres
during the exams, Ojerinde said this
year witnessed a decrease in
candidates’ desperation and incidences
of malpractice were not rampant unlike
last year.
He however said over a dozen handsets,
irregular answer sheets among others
were found on candidates.
Ojerinde however disclosed that a
medical doctor who sat for the exam
for his wife was caught in Jigawa state
and the matter he said would be
reported to the Nigerian Barr
Association (NBA).
He said candidates are to check their
results on-line via the Board’s website:
www.jambresult.com using their
registration numbers.
All the exam centres indicted in
malpractice and extortion would be
sanctioned by the Board.
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