BREAKING: Mass Failure Hits Nigeria’s Unified Matriculation Exam, 168,000 Of 1.4million Candidates Meet Cut-off Mark | Sahara Reporters

The 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, recorded poor performance by the candidates, as only 168, 613 scored above 200 out of the available 400 marks.

According to Vanguard, a perusal of the document issued by the Board after its Policy Meeting in Abuja early in the week showed that the performance was a far cry from the 404, 740 that scored over 200 out of the 1.9 million that sat for the examination in 2020. The document revealed that 1, 428,208 applied in 2021 UTME and over 300,000 were also direct entry candidates.

The breakdown of the performance of candidates in 2021, as given by JAMB, showed that 168, 613 scored 200 marks and above, 64,323 scored 190-199, and 90, 688 scored between 180 and 189 marksFor the range of 140 to 159 marks, 369,023 candidates fell into that category, while 170,816 scored between 130 and 139 marks.For 2021, Oyo State presented the highest number of candidates with 82,521, followed by Osun with 74, 234 and Ogun with 70,971.

Senate president Ahmad Lawan ur one of Nigeria problem infact ur the problem Nigeria has.Lawan Ahmad u dont know d meaning of senate president,every nonsense fulani brought to ur table u approve,do u have brains at all,who do u want to deceive when ur part of islamization agenda?

Rinsole_T Africa should stop the madness of making entrance exams difficult as children cannot be held back because they could not pass outdated subjects that has no importance in the present trend of development

This is very sad! It's called mass frustration. The Nigeria unworkable terrorist government has frustrated our young ones.

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It's not mass failure but mass frustration of already frustrated youths in a frustrated government of a frustrated country

Worrisome

Education have turned to a laughing stuff in this country

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This is terrible

What could be the reason?

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Social media has take over

This is very bad. Very bad

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