The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday released the results of the 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, five days after it was conducted with only 47 candidates scoring 250 and
above.
Registrar and Chief Executive of the Board, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde who announced the results at the Headquarters in Bwari, Abuja revealed that 2,494 results were withheld for further scrutiny while 36,164 others were invalid.
There was sharp decline in examination malpractice, and that a medical doctor was caught in Jigawa State for sitting for the examination for his wife.
All the examination centres indicted for malpractice and extortion would be sanctioned by the Board after investigation he said.
The JAMB Registrar, revealed that 990,179 candidates sat for the PPT while 25,325 candidates sat for DBT.
995,901 applicants preferred Universities as first choice institutions compared to Polytechnics and Colleges of Education, despite lesser admission carrying capacity for the universities.
Colleges of Education had 20,558 interested applicants, followed by Polytechnics with 13,761 applicants and 32 for Innovative Enterprises.
Ojerinde disclosed that 24 candidates who sat for the PPT scored 250 and above, 108,488 scored between 200 and 249; 315,401 scored 170-199; 115,456 scored 160-169; 122,157 scored 150-159, while 275,282
candidates scored below 150.
For the DBT mode, 23 candidates scored 250 and above, 1,309 scored between 200 and 249, 6,678 scored 170-199; 3,808 scored 160-169; 2,830 scored 150-159 while 2,471 candidates scored below 150.
“Information reaching the authorities in JAMB shows that some internet fraudsters are already telling candidates that their results could be upgraded in one form or the other. It is pure myth,” he said.
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