Ojerinde while announcing the release of the 2014 UTME results at JAMB headquarters, a total of 990,179 candidates applied for PPT while 25,325 candidates applied for DBT which amounts to 1,015,504 applicants".
Out of this, 36,164 were recorded as invalid results and 37,315 are for applicants who were absent on the exam date. 2,494 results were withheld due to various examination malpractices.
Ojerinde revealed 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.
Applicants who chose universities as their first choices are 995,901 in number while those who chose Polytechnics as their first choices are 13,761 applicants; Colleges of Education and Innovative Enterprise Institute have 20,558 and 32 applicants respectively who chose them as first choices.
Eight centres in Abia, Rivers, Ebonyi and Imo
States have been indicted by the board for
extorting from N500 – N1, 000 from the
applicants. The board's helmsman pledged that the culprits will be dealt with. He however, said that this year's UTME is one of the best the board has ever conducted.
Click on this link to check your results- http://www.jamb.org.ng/postregistrationefacility/VerifyResult.aspx?id=16
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