{"id":30168,"date":"2024-05-03T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2024-utme-kwara-teenage-student-scores-362\/"},"modified":"2024-05-03T10:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-05-03T10:00:58","slug":"2024-utme-kwara-teenage-student-scores-362","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/2024-utme-kwara-teenage-student-scores-362\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 UTME: Kwara teenage student scores 362"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A student of a public secondary school, Government Secondary School, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Olukayode Victor Olusola, scored 362 marks in this year\u2019s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to be among the contenders for the highest scorers in the examination.<\/p>\n<p>Though the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof. Isaq Oloyede, had said the Board would not announce the highest scorer to avoid last year\u2019s experience of confusing claims, Olukayode\u2019s score is celebratory, as it is among the highest in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>He scored 95 marks each in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry and 77 in English Language.<\/p>\n<p>His exploit is coming against the backdrop of the poor performance of candidates in the exam in which 1.4 million scored less than 200 marks out of 400. The exam was taken by over 1.8 million candidates<\/p>\n<p>Also, Olukayode\u2019s excellent performance is coming at a time when confidence is greatly eroding in what public schools have to offer and some private schools are boasting of being the most expensive in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Olukayode was born in 2009 and hopes to study Electrical Electronic at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State.<\/p>\n<p>His mother, Beatrice Tosin, while giving all the honor to God, also praised the studious and hard working nature of her child.<\/p>\n<p>2024 UTME: Kwara teenage student scores 362<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A student of a public secondary school, Government Secondary School, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Olukayode Victor Olusola, scored 362 marks&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8963,1372,15],"tags":[1279,176,180,7125],"class_list":["post-30168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2024-utme","category-kwara","category-news","tag-1279","tag-kwara","tag-news","tag-utme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}