This is some sad news, because according to the statistics released yesterday by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) official registrar, Professor Dibu, who did informed us, that they have just released the results and at the same time, the board also invalidated the results of Thirty six thousand, one hundred and sixty four (36,164) students.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, who made this known on Thursday at a news conference, while announcing the release of the 2014 jamb utme results in Bwari, Abuja.
Professor Dibu also disclosed that ONLY 24 candidates scored 250 points and above in the examination.
The registrar also went on to disclosed that about 315,401 candidates scored between 170 to 199 points.
While a total number of 108,488 candidates scored between 200 to 249 points.
The registrar said that this was the outcome of the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Dual Based Test (DBT) conducted in all the centres across the federation on the 12th of April.
Mr. Ojerinde went forward to said, that about 990,179 applied for the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) while 25,325 applied for the Dual Based Test (DBT), making a total of 1,015,504 applications for both modes of testing.
Professor Dibu also disclosed that a total number of 275, 282 candidates scored below 150 points, 122,159 scored between 150 to 159 points while 115,456 scored 160 to 169 points in the PPT mode.
According to him, there were 174 visually impaired candidates.
The JAMB registrar also said that the management board invalidated 36,164 results and withheld 2,494 others with 37,315 absentees.
According to him, the JAMB management board experienced remarkable decrease in the number of applicants that registered for the PPT during conduct of this year’s exercise and this is mainly because of the trust, candidates are growing more confidence in the Computer Base Test (CBT) like never before.
2014 Change of Choice of Institution and Courses
The Registrar also said that candidates would be allowed to change their choice of institutions and courses only once (just one time) from the date of release of the results.
For candidates who want to check their JAMB utme 2014 result, then use the checker by clicking the link below: JAMB 2014 RESULT CHECKER