AGE BARRIER MAY DEPRIVE OVERALL UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATIONS EXAMINATION CANDIDATE OF ADMISSION OPPORTUNITY

The overall best candidate in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME), is a 15-year-old boy, Ekele Franklin, from Imo who scored 347 and made University of Lagos his first choice, and Emmanuel Chidebube, a 16-year-old boy from Abia came second with a score of 346, while Isaac Olamide, a 17-year-old from Osun came third with 345.

Penpushing further reports that, Oloyede disclosed that, in all 2,906 candidates scored over 300 as against 4,683 in 2018, adding that statistics showed that, 57,579 candidates scored between 250 and 299 as against 64,120 in the 2018 results.

The Registrar added that 366,757 candidates also scored between 200 and 249, which is a significant improvement from the 2018 results, disclosing further that, 361,718 candidates scored between 180 and 199 as against 325,152 in 2018, while 494,484 scored between 160 and 179 as against 455,898 last year.

Penpushing reports that, the Registrar said,“410,844 candidates scored between 140 and 159 as against 346,825 recorded in 2018 while also 99,463 scored between 100 and 139 as against 64,712 in 2018’,adding that about 1,792,719 candidates sat for the examinations, while 34,120 candidates had their results withheld for examination malpractice.

The Registrar stated that, 15,145 results were withheld for further clarification, and advised candidates to use the phone number used for registration and text it to 55019 to get their results instantly.