By Adesina Soyooye
A candidate in the just released Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Ezubelu Valentine, is celebrating his high score after JAMB had scored him low in the earlier released corrupted result.
Recall that about 379,000 candidates from the South-east and parts of Lagos were forced to retake the examination after JAMB accepted human and system errors in those areas. No thanks to that, candidates who took their examination in those areas suffered “mass failure”.
On Sunday, JAMB released the results of the rescheduled examination and, a number of the Candidates are celebrating their new actual results as a vindication of their protest when JAMB released the confirmed corrupted result.
For instance, Ezubelu, who scored 154 in the corrupted result, scored 333 in the released result of the rescheduled examination. Celebrating his feat, he wrote via Ezubelu Valentine@EzubeluValrnti2 wrote: “First JAMB result 154. Resit jamb result 333”.
Alex Onyia, Chief Executive Officer, EDUCARE, in a post on his X handle @winexviv said that candidates have been vindicated.
A candidate, whose name Onyia did not disclose, scored 170 in the corrupted result but now scored 301 in the result of the rescheduled examination.
“This is the first JAMB resit result I woke up with. This youngster was wrongly graded 170 due to the error and now, 301 in just 48 hours of preparation.
“Finally, our students have been vindicated”, Onyia wrote.
In same vein, David Busola posted: “Yes oooooo! I am soooo happy!! My daughter scored 302 in the resit exam!!! All glory to God! Thank you @winexviv”.
And for Dubem #DubemSylvia, it is: “From 151 to 307. God is awesome.”
Yusuf Ademola @Alqiblly posted: “I got 152 at first. With a little preparation now, I got 278.”
And for Samuel Olusanya @BigSam_Olusanya: “My student that was given 146 now scored 332! The one that was given 160 now scored 305! The one that was given 170 now scored 308! I’m the happiest teacher on Earth.”
Writing on his X page, Engreb @Engreeeb posted: “Thank you for all you did, my niece was wrongly credited with 161 previously and after the resit, she scored 285. JAMB nearly shattered her dreams of becoming a Nurse.”
For Obiim @Odogwuobi it is “Thank you sir, from the initial 172 to 313. I’m so happy”.
Recall that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, had ordered a resit by candidates, of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, after it admitted both human and system errors which corrupted the results of its 2025 results.
In the earlier corrupted results, JAMB said that over 1.5 million, out of the 1.9 million candidates who sat for the UTME scored below 200 marks out of 400.
For the records, JAMB has said there will be another “mop-up” examination as over 200,000 candidates were still unable to retake the examination on the rescheduled date because it clashed with their West African School Certificate Examination, WASSCE.
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