JAMB Releases 2014 UTME Results for (PPT) Candidates

Candidates who wrote the recent Paper Pencil Test (PPT) organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) can now check their results as the results have been released. However  about 2,494 results have been reportedly withheld.

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, who announced this at a press conference on the release of the results in Bwari, Abuja, stated that the board also considered 36,164 results of the 2014 exercise as invalid.
He said that 37,315 candidates were absent, while adding that 174 candidates were visually impaired.

He listed the scores for the PPT mode by saying that 275, 282 candidates scored below 150 points, 122,159 scored between 150 to 159 points, 115,456 scored 160 to 169 points.

He also said that 315,401 scored between 170 to 199 points, 108, 488 candidates scored between 200 to 249 points, while 24 candidates scored 250 points and above.

On the DBT mode, he said that 2,471 candidates scored below 150 points, 2. 830 candidates scored between 150 to 159 points, 3,808 candidates scored between 160- to 169 points.

He further underlined that 6,678 candidates scored between 170 to 199 points, 1,309 candidates scored between 200 to 249 points, while 23 candidates scored above 250 points.


He said that a total of 1, 865 centres were used for the conduct of the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and 133 centres were used for Dual Based Test (DBT) across the Federation.

According to him, in this year’s exercise the Board experienced a remarkable decrease in the number of applicants that registered for the PPT.

“This reduction in number is attributed to the growing confidence of candidates in the Computer Based Test (CBT),” Ojerinde said.

He explained that 990, 179 applied for the PPT while 25, 325 applied for the DBT, which made it a total number 1, 015, 504 applications for both modes of testing.

He disclosed that the board is mindful of the security challenges in the nation and will continue to work with relevant security organisations to ensure that the lives of candidates are protected.

“Let me also state emphatically that the board conducted examination in Biu as such no candidate’s life was lost.

Prof. Ojerinde noted that the breakdown of application by institution shows the universities have the highest number of applicants as first choice.

“995,901 candidates chose universities as their first choices. Only 13,761 chose polytechnics as their first choices, while 20,558 chose colleges of education as their first choices, while 32 candidates chose Innovative enterprise institute.

The Registrar revealed that the Board had made adequate arrangement with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) for the provision for the NDA Post-UTME and CBT at a later date.

He described the recent UTME exercise held April 12, to mark the 6th edition of the PPT and DBT mode of exams as the most successful ever conducted by the Board.

He, however, assured that the Board had made adequate arrangements for candidates to check their UTME results on-line via the organisation’s Website on www.jambresult.com using their registration numbers.