JAMB releases results, withholds 12,110

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), yesterday said it was withholding the result of 12,110, candidates who sat for the paper and pencil test as well as the Dual Base Test in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), over examination malpractices.
It said candidates who sat for the UTME, deployed new techniques to perpetrate examination malpractice.
Similarly, the results of another 68,309 candidates are to undergo further screening to ascertain their culpability, just as analysis has shown that a total of 40,692 candidates results were invalid due to either multiple shading or no shading at all. JAMB also disclosed that a total of 47,974 candidates were absent from the examination.
Registrar of the board, Dibu Ojerinde, who made this known while announcing the result of the 2013, UTME, held last Saturday across the country, said 10 candidates scored 300 and above while 628 candidates scored between 270 and 299. Ojerinde, who did not disclose the names of the candidates and their examination centres, however, pointed out that the Computer Based Test (CBT) would continue from May 18 and end June 1, 2013 in centres that have been certified by the board.
The JAMB registrar, who also displayed some exhibits ceased from some candidates such as long sleeve shirts bearing readymade answers wore by candidates to the examination halls, said, “last year, we had cases of special designed slippers otherwise tagged “Magic Slippers” which desperate students used to perpetrate malpractice. He said: “This year witnessed a new turn as candidates wore long sleeve shirts that bore imprint of prepared answers.”
He warned future candidates to be wary of internet fraudsters who go about with false information deceiving them that they can upgrade their results in one form or the other on their behalf. Further analysis of the results released shows that 1,670,833 candidates applied to universities; 28,977 candidates applied to polytechnics; 28,445 candidates applied to colleges of education while only 25 candidates applied to innovate enterprises institutes.