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Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Is-haq Oloyede,the performance of candidates in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) ,was poorer relative to what was recorded in the past three years.
Speaking on a Nigerian Television Authority’s (NTA) programme tagged ”Weekend File.”,Mr Oloyede blamed the poor result on the disruption of the academic calendar on account of the rampaging coronavirus pandemic and environmental factors in Nigeria such as insecurity, among others.
He assured that the development would not affect the chances of the candidates in securing admission to their chosen higher institutions and cautioned critics on the assessment of the test.
Oloyede said the number of candidates that scored 120 marks and above out of the possible 400 in 2021 when compared to what obtained in 2020 was a difference of 0.25 per cent adding that it was worse when 2018 and 2019 performances are taken into consideration.
He added that the percentage of those who scored 120 marks and above out of the possible 400 in 2021 is 99.65 of the entire candidates but the figure stood at 99.80 in 2020.
He said: ”In 2018, it was 99.99 per cent but in 2019 it dropped to 99.92.
“Also, in 2020, 69.82 per cent of the total candidates who sat the UTME scored 160 and above but in 2021, it reduced to 65.62 per cent.”
Mr Oloyedein 2019, the percentage of those who scored more than 300 out of the possible 400 marks was 0.16 per cent while it was 0.26 per cent in 2020. But in 2021, he said the figure fell steeply to 0.06 per cent.
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