Monday, 10 August 2015

10,293 candidates fail OAU post-UTME test


Obafemi Awolowo University
Over 27,000 applicants seeking admission to Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, on Saturday wrote the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). No fewer than 10, 293 candidates failed to score 200 marks and above in the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination conducted by the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
This was contained in a statement by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr. Abiodun Olarewaju, on Sunday.
The university, according to Olarewaju, released the result of the Saturday screening barely six hours after  the conduct of its post-UTME  exercise on the website of the institution.
He said, “Out of about 20, 631 candidates, who sat for the screening, 10, 338 candidates scored 200 marks and above. This signifies about 58 per cent, specifically 57.08 per cent.
“A sizeable number of the candidates, however, put in exceptional brilliance, which produced spectacular results, scoring 300 and above, with four of them, who are aspiring to study Education English, specially outstanding.
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“Leading with the highest score of 348 is NZE, Samuel Onyenachi, with UTME no: 55227945CC, aspiring to study English Education, while the second highest of 344 was scored by ADEBAJO, Glory Olalekan, with UTME no: 55552404.
“The other two candidates, who both scored the same marks of 377 are EPUNAM, Ifeanyi Jude and OSENI, Felix Oluwatobi.”
Olarewaju advised all the candidates, who sat for the screening, to check their results accordingly.‎

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