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2019 UTME: How to check your results — Registrar -Ibomplaza News
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……….The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has said candidates do not need to approach any computer-based testing centre or cyber café to check their results.
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The board advised candidates to use the phone numbers they used to register to text ’RESULT’ to 55019.
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The registrar of the board Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this at a news conference Saturday in Abuja while announcing the 2019 results.
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He said the only means of checking the results of candidates would be through the short code — 55019.
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”For the first three days or between now and Monday, the only means of checking the results of candidates would be through the Short Code (55019),” he said.
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He said the board is using the method in order to ensure that fraudsters who would want to exploit candidates by reproducing messages and sending such messages to them are frustrated.
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”It is also to prevent those whose results are withheld from wasting their money at cyber cafes or creating unnecessary crowd at CBT centres,” Mr Oloyede said.
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”Those who were absent got their registration cancelled or have their results withheld will be told,” he said.
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The registrar said if a candidate uses a phone number that was not used to register, a message will be sent to him thus: “This phone number was not used for registration.”
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”A candidate with a result will receive the message: “Dear Mr/Miss X, your result is as follows… (and the details will be provided)”. If a result is withheld, a “Result Withheld” message will be sent to the candidate, ” he said.
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According to him, if a candidate belongs to the category being given the benefit of the doubt, the message to the person will be: “Result withheld pending the upload of clarifications/document required from you.”
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”If a candidate was absent, s/he would get “CANDIDATE ABSENT” as feedback. A candidate that was ABSENT WITH REGISTRATION NUMBER also CANCELLED will be so informed, ” he said.
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He said “Invalid Entrance into the Exam Hall” will be sent to a candidate who gained unauthorised access to the examination hall.
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He said the board has decided to send both photo and biometric details of candidates to institutions.
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”We have also put bar codes on the result slips that candidates will be printing. The essence of this is that once a candidate approaches an institution for Post-UTME screening, the institution will use the bar code scanner to authenticate the candidate, ” he said.
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”However, if a candidate brings a manipulated slip as the case may be at times, the Institution can type in the registration number to ensure that it is not a fake slip that is presented,” he said.
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A total of 1,826,839 sat the 2019 UTME and the board released the results of 1,792,719 candidates on Saturday.
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