UI releases post-UTME results, offers six scholarships

Forum 9 years ago

UI releases post-UTME results, offers six scholarships

Vice Chancellor, University of Ibadan, Prof. Isaac Adewole
The University of Ibadan has released results of the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, with a promise to offer the best six candidates scholarships.

No fewer than 8, 844 candidates, who scored above 200 marks in the UTME, sat for the examination on August 16, 2014.

The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Isaac Adewole, who announced the release of the result, said candidates performed better in this year’s examination.

According to him, the school placed the cut-off in this year’s post-UTME at 50 out of 100 marks.

He said, “From the number of those who sat for the examination, 6,267 candidates scored above 50 per cent while, 2,351 failed the examination. A total number of 226 candidates did not show up at all for the examination, while the lowest score is 12 per cent. The candidate chose archaeology.”

The VC added that Animashaun Daniel scored the highest mark in the examination with 90 per cent while Ajari Esther, Oteri Deta, Ojo Oluwadamilare, Omitoyin Oluwaferanmi and Aremu Oluwadamilola, scored 88 per cent.

Adewole said, “The practice is to give full scholarship to the top three candidates in the examination but this time, it will be different because we have five candidates in the joint second position. This means that instead of three, six candidates will be offered the scholarship.”

According to the statistics of the result, the most subscribed discipline in the post-UTME is Medicine with 1,965 candidates. Of the number, 1,701 scored above 50 per cent.

Adewole, who said faculties of education and agriculture recorded the lowest number of applicants, described the development as worrisome.

The VC added, “In a country where the government is doing everything to improve its agricultural sector, it is worrisome that youths who aspire to study at the higher level are not interested in choosing agriculture as a course. The same goes for education. Medicine and Pharmacy are not the only courses in the university.”

He also announced February next year as the resumption date for the 2014/2015 academic session.

According to him, the idea is to rehabilitate the hostels and give the lecturers enough time to rest.