UTME Resit: JAMB Says Candidates Can’t Use Initial Scores for Admissions

By: Olufemi Orunsola 

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has ruled out the possibility of candidates using their earlier Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, scores in place of results from the recent resit.

OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA OTN News reports that the Public Communication Adviser of the Board, Fabian Benjamin, made this clarification on Monday amid reactions from candidates about their UTME scores.

According to him, the initial results have been voided, and only the resit scores will be recognized by the Board.

His words, “You can’t have two results. One must be withdrawn – that means the old result has been withdrawn."

OTN News recalls that the UTME resit examination followed widespread outcry over technical and human errors that marred the initial university Matriculation examinations. 

The development prompted the examination board to conduct another exam for 379,000 affected candidates in Lagos and Southeast states.

The fresh results showed marked improvement as about 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 mark, raising the total number of those who scored 200 and above to 565,988.

The fresh figure represents 29.3 percent of the 1.9 million candidates who sat the exam.