According to the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Dibu Ojerinde while announcing
the release of the 2014 UTME results at JAMB headquarters, a total of
990,179 candidates applied for PPT while 25,325 candidates applied for
DBT which amounts to 1,015,504 applicants”.
Out of this, 36,164 were recorded as invalid results and 37,315 are for
applicants who were absent on the exam date. 2,494 results were withheld
due to various examination malpractices.
Ojerinde revealed that in PPT, 275,282 candidates scored below 150,
122,157 scored 150-159; 115,456 scored 160-169, 315,401 candidates
scored 170-199 while 108,488 candidates scored 200-249.
In DBT, 2,471 candidates scored below 150, 2,830 scored 150-159, 3,808
scored 160-169; 6,678 candidates also scored between 170-199 while 1,309
candidates scored 200-249.
Applicants who chose universities as
their first choices are 995,901 in
number while those who chose Polytechnics as their first choices are
13,761 applicants; Colleges of Education and Innovative Enterprise
Institute have 20,558 and 32 applicants respectively who chose them as
first choices.
Eight centres in Abia, Rivers, Ebonyi and Imo States have been indicted
by the board for extorting from N500 – N1, 000 from the applicants. The
board’s helmsman pledged that the culprits will be dealt with.
He however, said that this year’s UTME is one of the best the board has ever conducted.
If you have not yet checked your result, you can now do so by following the procedures on this publication titled; JAMB 2014 Results: How to Check your 2014 JAMB result
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