JAMB Fixes Cutoff Marks For Admissions, Names Highest Scorers

By Ayodele Oni

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has disclosed names of three candidates who scored 367 in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME).

With the scores, they have emerged as the highest scorers for the examination.

This was revealed at the ongoing 2024 policy meeting by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday in Abuja

They are Olowu Joseph from Ondo State, Alayande David from Oyo State, and Orukpe Joel from Edo State.

According to JAMB, the minimum tolerable score for University admission is 140, while Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have been pegged at 100.

The cutoff scores were recommended by the Rectors of polytechnics and provosts of colleges of education, respectively

This development marked that only candidates who scored at least 140 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be eligible for admission into Universities.

In 2023, Umeh Nkechinyere emerged as the highest scorer with a 360 aggregate score.

JAMB earlier noted that it won’t announce the 2024 highest scorer to avoid a repeat of the “Mmesoma matter.”

Recall that Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student, claimed to have scored 362 as against her actual score of 249 in the 2023 UTME JAMB portal.

Prof Ishak Oloyede, JAMB Registrar stated that “It is common knowledge that the Board has, at various fora, restated its unwillingness to publish the names of its best-performing candidates.

“It considers its UTME as only a ranking examination on account of the other parameters that would constitute what would later be considered the minimum admissible score for candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions.”