JAMB: Candidates Receive Results Via Text 24 Hours After UTME (CBT) Exams

The Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB),
candidates who sat for the 2015
CBT exams have received their
results, less than 24 hours after
the commencement of 2015
Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination, Premium Times
report.

The Board’s Computer Based
Centre in Bwari Area Council of
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,
the Registrar and Chief Executive
of JAMB, Dibu Ojerinde, while
supervising the conduct of the
examination disclosed that that
97,400 candidates who sat for the
examination on the first day
already got their results through
test messages.
In addition, JAMB’s Board
Chairman, Peter Eze, said the CBT
can be adjudged as 90 per cent
successful.

Mr. Eze said the
proposed general election now
scheduled for March 28 and April
11 affected preparations for the
examination and made the board
to fix the examinations within 14
days before the elections.

Samanja James, a candidate, who
applied for Mass Communications
at the University of Jos said, “the
new examination method has
made student all over the country
to be computer literate.”