Lawrence Nwimo, Awka
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said that 8,401 candidates scored above 300 in the just-released 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result.
Oloyede said the 8,401 candidates represent 0.5 percent of the 1,842,464 candidates who took the tertiary entrance examination.
He made this known in Abuja while giving a breakdown of the 2024 UTME results.
“8,401 candidates scored 300 and above; 77,070 scored 250 and above; 439,974 scored 200 and above while 1,402,490 scored below 200,” he said.
The JAMB boss said 64,624 results were withheld and are under investigation for various reasons.
He listed the offence to include verification (2,896), procedural investigations (4,594), and prima facie established exam misconduct (78).
Oloyede added that other results under investigation were centre-based investigations involving 57,056 candidates in 18 centres across the country.
