Only ten students passes JAMB.... 12,000 withheld

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results with only 10 students scoring above  300 while .12,000 results were sized 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." Professor Ojerinde of JAMB 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. He said about 40 centres would be screened to ascertain their culpability and warned the public against Internet fraudsters.