Results of the applicants who took part in the supplemental Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, or UTME, have been released to the public by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, or JAMB.
Recall that the inspection happened on Friday, June 21, and Saturday, June 22, 2024.
The board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, stated this in a released statement on Friday morning.
28,835 candidates who were unable to pass their examination in the main 2024 UTME because they could not be biometrically validated took the supplementary exam.
Comparably, individuals who were offered a second opportunity to take the exam but were suspected of engaging in examination malpractice during the main UTME implicated the other category of candidates.
“The exercise, which recorded a huge success nationwide, was marked by heightened security measures put in place by the Board to preclude any instance of examination infractions.
As such, some nefarious characters who had attempted to impersonate bona fide candidates were apprehended and handed over to law enforcement agencies for further investigation and prosecution,” the statement read.
“The board would continue to ensure that no candidate benefits from any acts of infractions through the deployment of state-of-the-art technology before, during, and after its examinations.
“Candidates are, therefore, urged in their own interest to refrain from engaging in any form of irregularity during their examinations.
“They are also enjoined to desist from soliciting score upgrades from fraudsters or engage in the mutilation of their result sheets while trying to generate fake result sheets with higher scores.
“To check their supplementary UTME results, candidates are to send UTMERESULT to either 55019 or 66019 through the same phone number they had used to generate their profile codes at the start of registration,” the statement went on.
