BREAKING: JAMB Announces 2024 UTME Top Scorers, Details Emerge
- The multiple top scorers in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have emerged
- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced Olowu Joseph from Ondo state, Alayande David from Oyo state, and Orukpe Joel from Edo state as the top scorers
- JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said the three candidates scored the highest mark of 367 in the 2024 UTME
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FCT, Abuja - The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the top scorers of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this at the ongoing 2024 policy meeting in Abuja on Thursday, July 18.
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As reported by The Punch, the 2024 UTME top scorers are Olowu Joseph from Ondo State, Alayande David from Oyo State, and Orukpe Joel from Edo State.
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Oloyede said the three candidates scored the highest mark of 367 in the 2024 UTME.
According to the list, 13 UTME candidates made the top ten scorers in the entrance examination into tertiary institutions.
JAMB had earlier noted that it won’t announce the 2024 highest scorer to avoid a repeat of the Ejikeme Mmesoma, a 19-year-old student, who claimed to score 362 in the 2023 UTME.
Oloyede had stated when JAMB released the results that only 8,401, representing 0.5 per cent of candidates, scored above 300 in the examination.
He said 77,070, representing 4.2 per cent, scored 250 and above and that 439,974, representing 24 per cent, scored 200 and above, Premium Times reported.
Legit.ng recalls that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led federal government pegged the age for admission into tertiary institutions at 18.
Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, said underaged students are responsible for some of the problems in Nigerian higher institutions.
JAMB announces "cut-off marks" for admission
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that JAMB announced the "cut-off" mark for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2024/25 academic session.
JAMB registrar, Professor Oloyede, pegged 140 as a "cut-off" mark for university and 100 for admission into polytechnics and colleges of education.
According to JAMB, there's no such thing as a 'cut-off mark' in the admission process to tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
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