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 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:
www.myjambresult.com using their registration numbers.
