Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced that only 414,696 candidates, out of the 1,603,181 that sat for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, scored above the average mark of 200.
The alarming result revealed that only 25% of the candidates that sat for the examination scored above the general university cutoff mark.
Speaking on Tuesday in a policy Meeting held at the Bola Babalakin Auditorium inOsun State, Oloyede further revealed that 558, 673 candidates scored above 190; 739,490 scored above 180 and 956, 937 above 170 marks.
However, Oloyede also reinstated that the scores released by JAMB were not the cut-off marks.
He explained that the cut-off marks are arrived at from the cumulative consideration of candidates’ scores or grades. He said: “Every candidate is required to accept or reject his/her admission before the process is said to be completed. Candidates can now protest their admission status should they feel they are not fairly treated.”
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