JAMB Warns Candidates Against Internet Fraudsters

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cautioned prospective candidates into universities and other tertiary institutions who sat its 2013 admission examinations on April 28 against subscribing dubious internet fraudsters who are promising to assign them qualifying marks.

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, registrar of JAMB, stated this in Abuja weekend while announcing the release of the examination results at a news conference advised parents and students to desist from patronizing these internet fraudsters who are on the prowl to harvest  unsuspecting victims.

“Information reaching JAMB shows Internet fraudsters are already telling candidates that their results could be upgraded in one form or the other,” Ojerinde stated.

The registrar immediately added the caveat: “This is pure deceit, the public and candidates are hereby advised to disregard these fraudsters since they do not have access to our data. Let me once again state that candidates are allowed to change their choices of institutions and courses once only, this change has to be effected within two weeks from today.”

While giving a total breakdown of the performance of candidates in the 2013 joint matriculations examination, Ojerinde noted that the general performance was commendable.

“The general performance of candidates in this year’s examination shows remarkable improvement compared with last year’s,” he stated.

A total of 1,629,102 candidates applied to sit for the Paper Pencil Test (PPT), while 15,008 candidates applied for the Dual Based Test, bringing the number of candidates  to 1,644,110.

The registrar said after thorough processing of answer scripts of the candidates who sat for the examination, the board discovered some forms of malpractice perpetuated during the conduct of the examination.

Subsequently, it withheld 12,110 results for possible disciplinary action. “However, the results of 68,309 candidates from various centres are undergoing further screening to ascertain the culpability of (the) 12,110 candidates’ results.”

“Ten candidates scored 300 marks and above, while 127,017 candidates scored between 1-159 marks.

“About 40,692 candidates’ results were invalid due to either multiple shading or no shading at all.  After processing all the results, the board also discovered that about 47,974 candidates were absent,” the registrar enthused.

He stated that the Computer Based Test (CBT) is scheduled to take place from May 18 to June 1 and appealed to candidates to reprint their e-registration slips afresh to further ascertain their CBT centres.