- 1,402,490 candidates who sat for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) scored less than 200
- The figure represents 76% of the total 1,842,464 candidates who sat for the 2024 UTME nationwide
- The number of UTME candidates who scored less than 200 from 2018 to 2024 has emerged after this year's poor performance
FCT, Abuja - There has been serious lamentation across the country over the poor performance of candidates in the just concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)
Legit.ng recalls that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said 1,402,490 candidates scored less than 200 in the 2024 UTME.
Oloyede said the figure represents 76% of the total 1,842,464 candidates that sat for the tertiary entrance examination.
This development appears like a recurrent performance as the failure rate at the UTME in the past seven years has been over 70%.
Statisense, a data company that focuses on data gathering for research purposes revealed that UTME recorded its highest percentage of candidates with less than 200 in 2021, which was 87.2%.
This was disclosed in a post shared via its X handle (formerly known as Twitter) @StatiSense on Monday, April 29.
The figure, 1.14 million, however, was the lowest in the last seven years.
2018 to 2024: UTME candidates who Scored below 200
- 2018 — 1.19 million, 74.1%
- 2019 — 1.40 million, 77.0%
- 2020 — 1.54 million, 79.2%
- 2021 — 1.14 million, 87.2%
- 2022 — 1.33 million, 77.8%
- 2023 — 1.17 million, 76.7%
- 2024 — 1.40 million, 76.1%
