THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it was withholding the results of underage candidates who sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), in line with its established regulations.
JAMB, in a statement issued by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, on Tuesday, April 21, following a wave of inquiries from concerned parents over candidates whose result status currently reads, “No Result Yet,” clarified that the message was not a technical glitch, but a deliberate system response for candidates who fall below the prescribed age requirement.
The Board restated that only candidates who will be at least 16 years old by September 30, this year, are eligible to register for and sit the UTME, even as it acknowledged the existence of an exceptional category for academically gifted underage candidates.
Under this provision, such candidates must score 320 and above in the UTME and also attain a minimum of 80 per cent in subsequent screening stages to qualify for consideration.
The statement explained that based on an agreement reached with and endorsed by parents of underage candidates, only those who meet the 320 score threshold will be shortlisted and invited to proceed to the next phase of assessment.
It added: “Successful candidates at that stage may then be considered for admission under the exceptional candidates provision.
“For now, results for underage candidates remain unreleased.”
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