The registrar, Prof Dibu Ojerinde who announced yesterday at JAMB headquarters, said a total of 1,015,504 results were released out of the 1.5 million that registered. So far, 990,179 and 25,325 sat for the PPT and DBT respectively.
He said “The board has not completed the matriculation examination as the last mode which is the Computer Based Examination, CBT will be taking place from Saturday,17th May-Saturday,31st May, 2014.”
Applicants whose first choices are universities are 995,901 in number. Polytechnics have 13,761 applicants while Colleges of Education and Innovative Enterprise Institute have 20,558 and 32 applicants respectively.
So far, 174 visually impaired sat for the exams, 36,164 and 37,315 are for invalid results and absentee applicants respectively.In the same vein, 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.
Ojerinde disclosed that “The board has made adequate arrangements for the checking of the 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME, results. Candidates are to check their results on-line via the board’s website. The result can be checked on www.jambresult.com using their registration numbers.It was learnt that out of over one million (1,015,504) candidates that sat for the exam nationwide, only 24 candidates scored 250 and above. Further look at the results indicate 315,401 candidates scored between 170 to 199 points, while 108,488 candidates scored between 200 to 249 points.
He said 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.
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