ABUJA The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it would reschedule candidates who failed to write the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
In a statement on Monday morning, the board announced that all candidates, who could not sit the 2023 UTME within their scheduled time owing to no fault of theirs, would be rescheduled to take the examination on Saturday, May 6, 2023.
Candidates under these categories are principally those (i) who were verified at their centers but could not sit the examination; (ii) those who could not be biometrically verified, and (iii) those with mismatched data,” JAMB said in the statement, released by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
Recall that JAMB had scheduled the conduct of the 2023 UTME to start on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, and end on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
It is equally noteworthy that the Board had informed Nigerians that it would be using some novel, innovative methods in conducting the exercise with the aim of completely arresting incidences of examination infractions.
This has been largely achieved as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions, but with equally emerging challenges on account of human negligence, which led to some candidates not being able to sit the examination on the first day.” “This notwithstanding, out of the 1,586,765 candidates that indicated interest in sitting the examination, only 80,166 are now outstanding,” the statement said.
The board noted that “on the first day of the 2023 UTME, a number of candidates in some centers could not sit the examination as well as in some centers in subsequent days due to diverse reasons. Though a reasonable number of them have been rescheduled and have taken the examination, some are yet to take their examination.
As part of the decisions reached at the end of an emergency management meeting held on Sunday, 31st April, 2023, the Board has fixed Saturday, 6th May, 2023, for all categories of candidates who have not sat their examination, as listed below, to take their examination.
Meanwhile, JAMB disclosed in the statement that results of candidates who have so far taken the examination will be released tomorrow, Tuesday, April 2,2023.
However,it said candidates who sat the examination but had challenges without being aware of such, would not see their results but would instead see their notification for rescheduled examination.
It asked all candidates who took the examination to check their results on or before Thursday, May 8, 2023.
The Board would be releasing the results of candidates who have taken the examination so far on Tuesday, 2nd May, 2023. The Board had delayed the release to ensure that all necessary screening was concluded and that the mean and standard deviation were reasonably obtained before releasing these results.
As candidates check their results on Tuesday, 2nd May, 2023, those who sat the examination but had challenges without being aware of such, would not see their results but would instead see their notification for rescheduled examination.
Consequently, all candidates who sat the examination are urged to check their results on or before Thursday, 8th May, 2023, it said.
JAMB explained the category of candidates scheduled to write the examination on Saturday thus:
A. UNVERIFIED CANDIDATES
These are candidates who were registered for the 2023 UTME without manifesting any biometric difficulty but who could not be verified on the day of the examination.
These candidates had not previously manifested any fingerprint defect or experienced any biometric challenge during the 2023 UTME registration but could not be verified to sit the examination on their scheduled examination date.
Source- Vanguard