The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has ruled out the possibility of candidates using their earlier Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, scores in place of results from the recent resit.
JAMB’s Public Communication Adviser, Fabian Benjamin, made the clarification on Monday.
According to him, the initial results have been voided, and only the resit scores will be recognized.
“You can’t have two results. One must be withdrawn – that means the old result has been withdrawn,” Benjamin stated.
The UTME resit followed widespread outcry over technical and human errors that marred the original examination.
The development prompted the examination board to conduct another exam for 379,000 affected candidates in Lagos and Southeast states.
The fresh results showed marked improvement as about 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 mark, raising the total number of those who scored 200 and above to 565,988.
The fresh figure represents 29.3 percent of the 1.9 million candidates who sat the exam.
