JAMB Releases UTME Result, Few Score Above 250

The 2014 result for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Dual Based Test (DBT) which held on the 12th April, 2014 has been released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).

The registrar, Prof Dibu Ojerinde who made this known on Thursday at a news conference in Bwari, Abuja, said a total of 1,015,504 results were released out of the 1.5 million that registered.
Out of over one million (1,015,504) candidates that sat for the
 exam, only 47 per cent scored 250 and above, 315,401 candidates scored between 170 to 199 points, 108,488 candidates scored between 200 to 249 points, 275, 282 candidates scored below 150 points,

122,159 scored between 150 to 159 points while 115,456 scored 160 to 169 points in the PPT mode.

He said the board invalidated 36,164 results, 2,494 results have been withheld due to various examination malpractice and 37,315 were absent. Also eight centres in Abia, Rivers, Ebonyi and Imo States have been indicted by the board for extorting from N500 – N1,000 from the applicants.

The board’s helmsman pledged that the culprits will be dealt with. Other candidates who opted for the Computer-Based Tests (CBT) await their turn and will begin to sit for their own examination in the 256 centres scattered all over and outside the country from Saturday,17th May-Saturday,31st May, 2014.

JAMB has said that this will be the last time they will conducting the paper pencil test. From next year, it will be all CBT as it will help eradicate examination malpractice.

hmmnn! :-/