JAMB Releases 2011 UTME Results •Withholds 22, 664 Candidates’ Results •197 Prison Inmates Wrote Exam

THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withheld about 22, 664 results of candidates who sat for the 2011 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME last Saturday for examination malpractices and further scrutiny.

Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde, made this known while announcing the release of the UTME results, in Abuja on Friday barely six days after its conduct.

This is coming just as the JAMB Registrar, has vowed to sanction any tertiary institution involved in late conduct of admissions by deleting the name of the institution from its brochure. This, by implication means the erring university, polytechnics or colleges of education, as the case may be would not be allowed to admit students for the session.

A total of 1, 493, 604 registered for the examination but the JAMB Registrar said only 1, 450, 143 candidates actually sat for the examination, indicating about 43, 461 absentees.

According to him, a total of 15, 160 results were withheld for examination malpractice representing 1.014 per cent of the candidates that sat for the examination, a drastic reduction in the cases of examination malpractices in the past JAMB examinations.

He said the results of about 7, 160 candidates mostly from Lagos, Rivers and Abia examination centres were questionable because of what he described as “centres of excellence” and that the results would be subjected to further scrutiny before there are released.

Prof. Ojerinde, said the biometric verification of candidates introduced by the Board scared away some of the mercenaries who were hired to sit for some registered candidates.

Ojerinde disclosed that the Board was also able to  drastically reduce the high incidence of invalid or incomplete results. In 2010, a total of 96, 451 candidates’ results were withheld as invalid, with a total of 82, 000 of the results declared incomplete results because of improper shading.

However, this figure was reduced to 28, 069 this year because of intensive sensitization of examiners on the need to check candidates during examinations. “Our target is to totally eliminate this phenomenon by drumming it to our examiners to do checks on candidates during the examinations,” he said.

A total of 197 prison inmates mainly from Kaduna and Ikoyi Prions sat for the 2011 UTME.

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