Jamb statement over official cutoff mark for 2017

JAMB has stated that a meeting with

officials will need to be conducted, after

which the Cut-Off Marks for 2017 UTME will

be announced.

No date has been announced for when the

meeting will be conducted.

JAMB insists that it has not released the

cut-off mark for the 2017 examination.

NAN reports that the Head, Media and

Information, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin,

made the clarification in a statement made

available to the News Agency of Nigeria in

Lagos on Tuesday.

He said that the policy committee meeting

responsible for the determination of cut-off

marks had not met.

According to him, it is in the best interest of

candidates and other critical stakeholders to

jettison cut-off marks for the various

courses that are currently being paraded.

"We want to appeal to all candidates to

jettison such speculations and engage

themselves in more meaningful ventures that

would add value to their future," he said.

Benjamin said results of the just concluded

2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation

Examination had since been released, with a

few others still being previewed.

"We want to appeal to Nigerians to

understand that such candidates whose

results are being previewed may not

necessarily have participated in any

malpractice.

"But rather, centres where they sat for the

examination had issues during the conduct

of examination.

"These issues were reflected on the CCTV

footage and this suggests why they must be

carefully investigated before releasing such

results," he said.

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