The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates of the 2019 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) that results would be ready from April 29.
Fabian Benjamin, the board’s head
of media and publicity, disclosed this in an interview with NAN on Saturday in
Bwari.
Benjamin said that screening of
the results would soon be over and the result released.
“We are still screening but
hopefully, anytime next week, the results will be ready,” he said.
Speaking also on the board’s
readiness to screen results of UTME candidates from 2009 to 2018, Benjamin said
this would begin after the release of the 2019 results.
He said this was part of the
board’s effort to address the issues of malpractice in the system.
The board had stated that it
would only release the 2019 UTME results after undergoing thorough screening to
identify and apprehend examination cheats.
The process would identify those
involved in multiple registration through biometric capturing and also address
group registration by some elite schools, who end up mixing candidate’s data.
“Normally, results are expected
to be out within 24 to 48 hours as obtained in previous examinations held in
2017 and 2018,” he said.
“However, the board does not want
this to be business as usual.
“Hence the programmed delay,
which is part of its deliberate effort to properly scrutinize, identify and
address all forms of examination malpractice.
“The board will continue to act
decisively with regards to any irregularity discovered even after results are
released.
“However, the board has made it a
point of duty to screen all activities at all centres via CCTV recordings, to
ensure that it does not release results of compromised examinations.”
The board, while regretting all
inconvenience caused in the process, reaffirmed its commitment to providing
equal opportunity to all candidates in order to articulate their aspirations.
JAMB said that effective from
when it would officially release the results, all candidates can simply send
RESULT, via SMS, to 55019 using the same number that was used for registration.
The result, it said, would be
replied as an SMS shortly after.
This process, the board
explained, was simplified to eliminate exploitation by business centres and
cyber cafés who often take advantage of candidates.
It also urged candidates to
ignore all messages in circulation on how to check the results as they were all
products of deceit.
The 2019 UTME was conducted from
April 11 to April 18 and over 1.8 million candidates registered for it.
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