Why JAMB Still Withholds 64,000 UTME Examination Results, Releases Additional 531

By Ayodele Oni

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it is continuing with the screening of over 64,000 withheld results of the recently conducted Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) due to cases of examination misconduct.

This is just as the board announced on Tuesday release of additional 531 results making the total number of results released to 1,842,897.

This is contained in a statement by the Public Communication Advisor of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin in Abuja.

He added that “In the course of the exercise, other cases of examination misconduct were also established to make a tally of 92 from the 81 initially discovered.”

According to him, the Board is also looking at cases of unverified candidates and would soon come up with a position.

He added that the attention of the Board has been drawn to some fallacious publications purporting that an unknown candidate, who did not sit for the Board’s 2024 UTME obtained scores.

Benjamin described this as fake, malicious and a calculated attempt to undermine the integrity of the Board, while urging the public to disregard such publications.

He pointed out that the publication which levels such a grievous allegation, has no details of the candidate for proper verification.

“The Board is not surprised as this is the season of mischief makers, who would want to deceive gullible candidates.

“The examination template of the Board is designed with the highest sense of responsibility and is not an allocation platform where scores are doled out to candidates.

“It is most unfortunate that anybody could even believe such narration or that the story could even gain traction given the Board’s integrity.

“This again has gone to further vindicate the Board’s stance that candidates should desist from disclosing their classified details to third-parties.”

He stated further that in investigating some of these allegations, the Board discovered that some of these mischief makers copy results sent to other candidates.

“They then edit the details sent to them and then parade this as emanating from the Board.

“The Board challenges any candidate, parent or anybody with such a claim to prove it wrong by coming forward with the details of such claims, and the phone number with which such results were conveyed.”

Benjamin maintained that this development would only propel the Board to further tighten the process of checking its results to make it more personalized adding that it would be stringent when it should actually be a simple and straightforward exercise.

“The Board reiterated that neither its results nor any of its processes have been compromised.

“Hence, it will continue to protect the integrity of its systems against such malicious actors, who are hell-bent on creating confusion where none existed.”

Benjamin said that the Board will add more features like registration number to the existing UTME Result checking process going forward, to make it extra difficult for anybody to edit.