JAMB Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde
The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has withheld the results of
80,419 candidates among those that sat for the last Saturday’s 2013
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
Of this figure, 12,110 candidates’
results “are withheld for a possible disciplinary action” while 68,309
results “from various centres are still undergoing further screening,”
JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said on Friday
during the official release of the results.
“About 40,692 results were invalid due to multiple shading or no shading at all,” he stated.
Ojerinde, who addressed journalists at
the examination body’s National Headquarters, Bwari, Abuja, said the
irregularities were discovered after processing the answer scripts.
He lamented that candidates had changed
their style of perpetrating examination malpractices from wearing ‘magic
slippers,’ to wearing “long sleeve shirts that bore imprint of prepared
answers.”
He exhibited three shirts seized from candidates as evidence.
Reading a text message received from an
unnamed parent, Ojerinde warned the public against patronising Internet
fraudsters, who “are already telling candidates that their results could
be upgraded.”
“They do not have access to our data,” he stressed.
The JAMB boss said, “40 examination
centres were found wanting and their results are under screening. We
have ample evidence against them.”
On one Isaac Okeke arrested in Abuja for
alleged impersonation, Ojerinde said, “It is true that he was duly
registered for the examination but the cyber cafe man gave him a fake
e-slip. We thank God the production of fake e-registration slips has
reduced.”
Responding to a question, Ojerinde said
the board had no record of conviction secured for examination
malpractices as “it is a case between the state and those caught. We can
only serve as witnesses.”
To buttress the desperation of
candidates at the centres, he stated that a Catholic School was involved
in examination malpractice without the knowledge of the Reverend
Father.
Giving an assurance that a computer
based test will still hold on June 1 as scheduled, Ojerinde appealed to
candidates to print fresh e-registration slips to further ascertain
their centres.
Analysing the results, he said 10
candidates scored 300 and above, 628 scored between 270 and 299, 33,115
scored between 250 and 269, while 704,622 scored between 200 and 249.
About 571,298 scored between 170 and 199; 103,489 scored between 160 and169 while 127,017 scored less than 159.
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