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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it would release the results of 379,000 candidates who sat for the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, on Wednesday.
the resit exams, which were held in the South-east and Lagos between Friday and Monday arose from multiple complaints of technical and human errors during the initial UTME, resulting mass failure of the candidates.
The Prof Ishaq Oloyede-led board took responsibility for the glitches, apologized and rescheduled the exams.
Oloyede, while publicly acknowledging the Board’s failure even shed tears and responsibility and even broke down in announced the makeup exam for the affected candidates.
According to the results announced by JAMB 1.5 million out of the 1,955,069 candidates who took the original UTME, more than scored below 200 marks out of a possible 400.
The registrar previously disclosed that 379,997 candidates were affected—206,610 across 65 centres in Lagos and 173,387 in 92 centres in the South-East.He described the disruptions as an act of “sabotage” and said affected candidates were notified via SMS starting last Thursday.
Of the nearly two million results processed, only 4,756 candidates (0.24%) scored 320 and above.
A breakdown of the result shows 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.
Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s spokesman, told newsmen on Monday, that the resit results would be released on Wednesday.
“The results of the candidates who took the rescheduled exam will be released on Wednesday,” he said.
