The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says 76 per cent of candidates who wrote the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results scored below 200.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, announced the release of the results at a press conference held at the board’s headquarters, Bwari, in Abuja on Monday.
He said of the “1,842,464 released results, a paltry 0.4% scored above 300 while 24% scored 50% (200/400) and above. 1,402,490, which is 76 per cent of the candidates got below 200.”
According to Oloyede, over 1.94 million candidates registered and sat for the examination in 118 towns and over 700 centres across the country.
“It is common knowledge that the Board has, at various fora, restated its unwillingness to publish the names of its best-performing candidates, as it considers its UTME as only a ranking examination on account of the other parameters that would constitute what would later be considered the minimum admissible score for candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions,” Oloyede noted.
The examination which began on Friday the 19th of April ended on Monday the 29th of April.
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