The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, today July 14 released the results of the 2017 university admission supplementary examination that was held on July 1.
The supplementary examination was an avenue created by JAMB to allow late registration candidates for the first exams, and those will related challenges write the partake in this year's exams.
A minimum of 85,000 candidates were billed
to write the test, Premium Times reports.
The 1,718,425 candidates who registered and
sat for the just concluded Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the
federation, only 1,606,901 results have been
released by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB).
The registrar of JAMB Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Wednesday, May 31.
Oloyede stated that the decision to withhold
some 76,923 results out of the 80,889
outstanding was deliberately taken by the
board due to alleged exam malpractices in
some of the examination centers.
The results were released within 24 hours of
the examination and the registrar disclosed
that the outstanding results would be
released soon.
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