Real reason I wrote Jamb again, UNIZIK’s best-graduating student speaks after scoring above 300
Juliet Chidiebube Uka, a recent graduate of Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, gathered a score of 324 in the recently concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
With a first-class degree, Uka was the best graduating of Chemistry Department at UNIZIK in 2021.
She said she sat for the 2024 UTME to study Medicine as she wants to fulfill her dreams of becoming a medical doctor.
Her result made public, showed that she scored an aggregate of 324 in UTME as she seeks to re-enter the university.
Her elder brother, Obiora Uka, said his sister made up her mind to study medicine and surgery at all costs.
“She has demonstrated resilience through outstanding performance. She has maintained that her ambition is to become a doctor. This led her to write Jamb again this year 2024 and scored an aggregate of 324,” he added.
Obiora said the family hopes she can actualize her lifelong dream of becoming a medical doctor.
Meanwhile, users of the social media app, X, have continued to the inflow of candidates’ results from the concluded 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, in its statement, disclosed that 1,402,490 candidates out of 1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks.
Netizens have continued to display the results of some UTME candidates nationwide who had scored 300 and above.
One such is the daughter of a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in Kaduna State; Toro Shehu, who scored 348 out of a total 400.