The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says no hopeful of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has more than one outcome. The board expressed this in its week by week announcement discharged from the workplace of the Registrar on Sunday in Abuja, NAN reports.
The announcement cited the Head, Media, and Publications, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, as saying that hopefuls with more than one outcome were either deceitful or casualties of examination syndicates. As per him, the board has proof of certain hopefuls who paid cash to syndicates to guarantee they increased high scores in the examination.
“The syndicates, understanding that they couldn’t convey as guaranteed, instead, thought of these produced outcomes and sent same to applicants who trusted them. “These are the arrangement of competitors professing to have two outcomes, that is, with the real issue as one of them.
“It is difficult to have two outcomes since we don’t send results to hopefuls, rather, competitors send ‘Results’ to 55019, and the outcome is in this manner transmitted to the separate applicants.” Benjamin included that the board has guaranteed that the UTME results were verified with high security includes that would render the endeavors of any syndicate or fraudster invalid.
One of such highlights, he said was an individual standardized identification put on each outcome to protect it. He, be that as it may, cautioned that competitors must not wind up simple and edgy and asked them to be careful about criminal components which need to dupe them.
Benjamin likewise said that the board’s recharged purpose to face examination negligence fast was yielding outcomes. He brought up that the board was not in charge of choosing a national cutoff mark for inductions into different organizations, including that the board had not set a cutoff mark for the 2019/20 confirmation procedure.
He, in any case, clarified that a national cutoff imprint would be chosen at the JAMB approach meeting of instruction investors and heads of foundations to be led by a Ministry of Education official. He said the gathering would hang on June 11 at Gbongan, Osun state.
Source: Gistok
