The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board-JAMB has released the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results.
The Board’s Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede made this known at a press conference held at the its headquarters in Abuja.
JAMB Registrar explained that candidates who took part in this year’s UTME can checked their results following this simple steps.
“Candidates are advised to use the phone numbers they used to register to text UTMERESULT to 55019/66019. There is no need to approach any CBT centre or cybercafé to check results”
Ishaq Oloyede said over 1.94 million candidates registered and sat for the examination in 118 towns and over 700 centres across the country.
According to the Registrar, out of the 1,989,668 registered candidates, 80, 810 were absent while a total of 1, 904, 189 sat the UTME within the six days of the examination.
Concerning on the statistics of the result, the JAMB Registrar said “out of the 1,842,464 released results, 0.4% scored above 300 while 24% scored 50% (200/400) and above”.
Ishaq Oloyede who noted that 1,1,402,490, which is 76 per cent of the candidates got below 200 however, re-echoed its resolve not to publish the name of the highest-scoring candidate.
