The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB , Thursday, released the result of this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted across the country last Saturday.
According to the Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB,Prof. Dibu Ojerinde only 47 candidates scored 250 and above in the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Dual Based Test (DBT) modes .o
24 candidates scored 250 and above in the PPT while 23 candidates scored 250 and above in the DBT.
The JAMB boss while breaking down the result of her 6th edition of the UTME on the two modes, Ojerinde disclosed that in PPT, 275,282 candidates scored below 150, 122,157 scored 150-159; 115,456 scored 160-169, 315,401 candidates scored 170-199 while 108,488 candidates scored 200-249.
“In DBT, 2,471 candidates scored below 150, 2,830 scored 150-159, 3,808 scored 160-169; 6,678 candidates also scored between 170-199 while 1,309 candidates scored 200-249.
“A total of 990,179 candidates applied for PPT while 25,325 candidates applied for DBT which amounts to 1,015,504 applicants”.
Prof Ojerinde said universities have highest number of applicants as first choice as not less than 995,901 candidates choose universities as their first choice of institution, 13, 761 candidates choose polytechnics as first choice; 20, 558 opted for colleges of education while 32 candidates choose innovative enterprise institute as their first choice.