Just in: JAMB releases 2024 UTME results, Over 1.4Million Candidates out of 1.8Million Candidates (a whopping 76%) scored below 200

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JAMB releases 2024 UT ME results, Over 1.4/Million Candidates out of 1 Million Candidates (a whopping 76%) scored below 200,


Candidates who sat the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) can now check their results.


The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Is-haq loyede, a professor, disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday.


Between Friday, 19 and 29 April, more than 1.9 million candidates took the computer-based examination to rank candidates seeking admission into Nigerian tertiary institutions.


Mr Oloyede, however, said the examination body had withheld the results of 64, 674 candidates for possible infractions. He said the board was investigating the withheld results.


Mr Oloyede, according to a copy of his speech obtained by PREMIUM TIMES, said: "Out of a total of 1,989,668 registered candidates, 20,210 were absent. A total of 1,904,189 sat the UT ME within the six days of the examination".


He said the results of total of 1,842,464 candidates have been released.


Pass Rate


The registrar further noted that 8,401, representing 0.5 per cent of candidates, scored 300 and above in the examination. The maximum score obtainable in the UTME is 400


He said 77,070, representing 4.2 per cent, scored 250 and above and that 439,974, representing 24 per cent, scored 200 and above.


Withheld results, infractions


The JAMB registrar explained that 78 of the withheld results are under investigation for alleged examination misconduct. 4,596 for "procedural investigation of candidates, 2,896 "under investigation on verification," and 57,056 for centre-based investigations.


For the centre-based investigation, 18 centres are involved, with the breakdown presented as Edo 1, Akwa Thom, Delta z and Kwara 1.


Mr Oloyede, however, noted that there's a downward trend in the cases of examination infractions noticed in the UTME since the introduction of computer-based tests almost ten years ago.

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