The Joint Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has on Friday 25th June, 2021, released the results of candidates who wrote the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). ayokinews.com reports
The announcement was made public in a statement released by JAMB’s Head of Media, Fabian Benjamin, who also stated that the result for the coming days would be released daily and that candidates should check their results by sending UTMERESULT to 55019 through their various GSM numbers.
The statement reads; “The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the results of candidates who sat in more than 720 CBT centres for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted between Saturday, June 19 and Tuesday, June 22, 2021.
“Each concerned candidate is advised to check his/her result by sending UTMERESULT to 55019 through the GSM number used by each candidate to obtain profile code and UTME registration with the Board and their results would be relayed to them. Results for subsequent days would be released daily.
“The Board notes with satisfaction that the utilisation of NIN (National Identification Number) has helped in curbing examination malpractices as the 2021 UTME has recorded the least incidence of irregularities since the inception of the CBT examinations in Nigeria.
“Nevertheless, the Board would still review all the CCTV (closed circuit television) footage and other technical gadgets for detection of possible examination misconducts.
“Extremely comparatively few results are being withheld for further investigation.
“In addition, the Board would not hesitate to withdraw the results of any candidate subsequently found to have committed any form of examination misconduct”.
