2015 UTME: Over 895,000 Candidates Have Received Their Results – JAMB Registrar

The Joint Admission And Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday, disclosed that the board had successfully processed and released over 895, 000 results of candidates, who sat for the 2015 UTME.

Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB), Prof Dibu Ojerinde, who made this know to newsmen during a supervision exercise, said that the scores were sent to the mobile phones of the candidates.

Ojerinde insisted that the results were released about two hours after examination, directly to the mobile phones supplied to the board by the candidates.


The JAMB boss clarified that some candidates failed to get their results because they gave wrong numbers, while also urging such candidates to check the results online on the board’s website ,using their registration number.

He said the introduction CBT had eliminated the problems of examination malpractices, especially ,impersonation, that characterised the conduct of public examination.

Ojerinde noted that a total of 400 certified examination centres were being used for the kick-off of the full-blown Computer Based Test (CBT) this year, adding that the examination would be seamless next year when new centres would have been approved in addition to those to be established by the government.


He admitted that there were few challenges encountered on the first day of the examination in some of the centres across the nation but said that the board had overcome those hiccups as the examination is progressing smoothly in all the centres.