According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), applicants who took this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) but have not yet received their results may take a mop-up exam.
The organization said the mop-up exam would take place soon. JAMB’s head of public affairs and protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, provided the assurance when FrontPage News asked about the organization’s stance on the candidates in that category, especially in light of the recent announcement of the minimal cut-off grades for admission.
But even now, over two months after the exam ended, Fabian has not explained why their scores could not be made public alongside others’. He has also been silent regarding the total number of people who are eligible to retake the exam across the country.
Remember that only over 21% of the more than 1.7 million applicants who took the exam received 200 or more out of a possible 400 points, according to JAMB, which also set the minimal cutoff scores at 140 (35%) and 100 (25%) for admission to universities, polytechnics, and institutes of education, respectively.
Our research, however, showed that thousands of people nationwide—including complete candidates for several CBT centers—have not yet received their results.
A few of the impacted candidates in Lagos claimed they had practically given up on the matter and were just waiting to hear back from anyone on their results.
A CBT center operator in Lagos who requested anonymity also told FrontPage News that he was unable to acquire a convincing response from the Lagos Office of JAMB regarding the reason why none of the candidates from his center received any results.
The operator stated that he had been receiving calls from several parents of candidates who took the exam at his center on the developments, and he anticipated more calls now that JAMB had revealed the cutoff marks.
“Some parents are even inquiring as to whether there was a case or cases of malpractice at our center during the exam, and I assured them that there was nothing of the kind,” he stated.
“Therefore, as a newsman, I would humbly ask that you assist us in determining the true nature of the issue from JAMB so that we can rest easy.”
But in an interview, Alhaji Haruna Danjuma, the national president of the Parent-Teacher Association of Nigeria (PTAN), also revealed to our correspondent that, in an attempt to find out more about the matter, he had personally dispatched an emissary to the JAMB Kaduna Office.
He continued by saying that the group had abandoned its plans to visit the JAMB headquarters in Abuja to discuss the matter.
