Merit has now become a bad word and meritocracy is look upon with suspicion. This is your Nigeria where Jamb refused to announce the top candidates that have achieved the best results in JAMB 2024 examination. The reason given by JAMB boss for their refusal to acknowledge the best candidate was because of the incident in 2023 when a candidate fabricated a result. What a silly reason? So, because of an incident of 2023, the whole country will be denied of the tradition of celebrating the best of the candidates.
“The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has disclosed why the examination body wouldn’t announce the names of the highest-scoring candidates in the just concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. He stated this during a press briefing in Bwari, Abuja on Monday, recalling that hitherto, the Board had been unwilling to disclose its yearly top scorers. Oloyede said this is due to the avoidance of “a repeat of the Mmesoma saga,” while the board also considers the UTME as “only a ranking examination,” among other reasons. Mmesoma Ejikeme, a UTME candidate from Anambra State, was embroiled with JAMB in 2023 when she claimed to have scored 362 out of a total of 400.”
But in Nigeria anything is possible and you can give any reason and it stays. If a candidate violate the rules and regulations of the JAMB examination board penalize the candidate NOT the whole country.
Below are findings from the exam.
Here are the key findings from the examination:
1. Nearly 2 million candidates participated in the exam across 118 towns and over 700 centers nationwide.
2. Out of these, results for approximately 1.8 million candidates have been released, while investigations are ongoing for about 64,600 candidates.
3. A small fraction, 0.5% of candidates, achieved scores of 300 and above, totaling 8,401.
4. A larger percentage, 4.2%, attained scores of 250 and above, amounting to 77,070 candidates.
5. Approximately 24% of candidates scored 200 and above, accounting for 439,974 individuals.
6. The majority, 76%, scored 199 and below, totaling 1,402,490 candidates.
7. Females constituted 50.6% of the candidates, with a count of 1,007,275.
8. Males made up 49.4% of the candidates, totaling 982,393 individuals. (Naijanews)
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