The Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
results.
The board, however, withheld 12,110
results for possible disciplinary action.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde,
announced this at a news conference on the
release of the results in Bwari, FCT, on Friday.
The registrar said after thorough processing
of answer scripts of the candidates who sat
for the examination, the board discovered
some forms of malpractice perpetuated
during the conduct of the examination.
“However, the results of 68,309 candidates
from various centres are undergoing further
screening to ascertain the culpability of
12,110 candidates’ results.“
A total of 1,629,102 candidates applied to sit
for the Paper Pencil Test (PPT), while 15,008
candidates applied for the Dual Based Test,
bringing the number ofcandidates to
1,644,110.
“The general performance of candidates in
this year’s examination shows remarkable
improvement compared with last year.
“Ten candidates scored 300 marks and
above, while 127,017 candidates scored
between 1-159 marks.
“About 40,692 candidates’ results were
invalid due to either multiple shading or no
shading at all. After processing all the
results, the board also discovered that about
47,974 candidates were absent.“
The registrar assured the candidates that
their resultscould be accessed on the JAMB
Website: www.myjambresult.com using
their registration numbers.
He said about 40 centres would be screened
to ascertain their culpability and warned the
public against Internet fraudsters.
“Information reaching JAMB shows Internet
fraudsters are already telling candidates that
their results could be upgraded in one form
or the other. “
This is pure deceit, the public and
candidates are hereby advised to disregard
these fraudsters since they do not have
access to our data.
“Let me once again state that candidates are
allowed to change their choices of
institutions and courses once only, this
change has tobe effected within two weeks
from today. “
Ojerinde said the Computer Based Test (CBT)
is scheduled to take place from May 18 to
June 1 and appealed to candidates to
reprint their e-registration slips afresh to
further ascertain their CBT centres. (NAN)