…approves minimum score for this year’s admission
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said that the board recorded only 280 cases of malpractice in the 2018 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Oloyede disclosed this at the Board’s 2018 Policy Meeting, saying that there was a drastic reduction in the incidence of malpractice as a result of the sophisticated techniques JAMB used in the conduct of this year’s examination.
“JAMB recorded only 280 cases of malpractice, a reduction of 88.84% of the recorded cases in the last year’s examination. We made use of so many equipment, including the CCTV and others, to check this practice and we arrived at a reasonable reduction,” he said.
The Registrar further stated that only 25 per cent of the candidates scored above 200 marks; that is 414,696 candidates, out of the 1,603,181, who sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The figure, according to him, translates to 25. 09 per cent. This is against the 465,025 (27.00 per cent) of the 1, 606, 374, who scored above 200 in 2017.
The JAMB boss, however, said that 558, 673 candidates scored above 190; 739,490 above 180 and 956, 937 above 170 marks.
The board, therefore, approved the UTME scores as agreed by the heads of institutions with the minimum score for degree awarding institutions pegged at 140; National Diploma, 120; National Innovative Diploma and Nigeria Certificate in Education, 100.
Oloyede, however, warned that scores released by JAMB were not the cut-off marks.
“UTME is not the cut-off mark. It is the minimum score, which every other scores would be added to get the cut-off,” the JAMB registrar said.
