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
3/5/2013.
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 of candidates 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
results could be accessed on the JAMB Website:
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 to be
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.
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