2024 UTME: 174 Deeper Life school students score above 300
The management of Deeper Life High School has disclosed that 174 of their students scored above 300 in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Nation had reported that JAMB announced the decision not to disclose the names of the highest-scoring candidates in the just-concluded UTME.
The school in a post via its official handle on Facebook @Deeper Life High School posted the 174 students.
“Despite JAMB’s announcement that only around 0.5% of candidates nationwide scored 300 and above in the 2024 UTME, an astounding one hundred and seventy-four (174) students of DLHS exceeded expectations with flying colours by scoring 300 and above,” the school said in the post.
According to the information obtained from the school’s Facebook page, the highest scorer from the school this year, Ayeyemi Godsgift Ibukunoluwa scored a total of 362 points out of the total 400 obtainable points.
Recall that Umeh Kamsiyochukwu an ex-student of the school had emerged as the highest scorer for 2023 UTME with a total of 360 points.
According to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks.
The statement partly reads, “It is common knowledge that the Board has, at various fora, restated its unwillingness to publish the names of its best-performing candidates, as it considers its UTME as only a ranking examination on account of the other parameters that would constitute what would later be considered the minimum admissible score for candidates seeking admission to tertiary institutions.
“Similarly, because of the different variables adopted by respective institutions, it might be downright impossible to arrive at a single or all-encompassing set of parameters for generating a list of candidates with the highest admissible score, as gaining admission remains the ultimate goal. Hence, it might be unrealistic or presumptive to say a particular candidate is the highest scorer given the fact that such a candidate may, in the final analysis, not even be admitted.”
