By Abiola Olawale
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it would release the results of 379,000 candidates who sat for the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Wednesday.
JAMB explained that the development follows the conclusion of the resit exam which was conducted between Friday and Monday.
The Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, made this announcement while addressing a press conference.
“The results of the candidates who took the rescheduled exam will be released on Wednesday,” Benjamin said.
The New Diplomat reports that this comes after widespread complaints of technical and human errors during the initial UTME, which impacted candidates’ performance, especially in Lagos and the South-East.
Recall that last week, the JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, publicly accepted responsibility and broke down in tears while announcing a makeup examination for the affected candidates.
The data of the initial JAMB revealed that out of the 1,955,069 candidates who took the original UTME, more than 1.5 million scored below 200 marks.
On the other hand, only 4,756 candidates (0.24%) scored 320 and above.
Further breakdown of the initial result showed that 7,658 candidates (0.39%) scored between 300 and 319, bringing the number of those who scored 300 and above to just 12,414 (0.63%).
Also, 73,441 candidates (3.76%) scored between 250–299; 334,560 (17.11%) scored between 200–249; 983,187 (50.29%) scored between 160–199; 488,197 (24.97%) scored between 140–159; 57,419 (2.94%) scored between 120–139; 3,820 (0.20%) scored between 100–119; while 2,031 (0.10%) scored below 100.
