The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), yesterday said it was withholding the result of 12,110, candidates who sat for the paper and pencil test as well as the Dual Base Test in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), over examination malpractices. It said candidates who sat for the UTME, deployed new techniques to perpetrate examination malpractice.
Similarly, the results of another 68,309 candidates are to undergo further screening to ascertain their culpability, just as analysis has shown that a total of 40,692 candidates results were invalid due to either multiple shading or no shading at all. JAMB also disclosed that a total of 47,974 candidates were absent from the examination.
