The Joints Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that about 80,000 candidates, who could not sit for the 2023 UTME within their scheduled time owing to no fault of theirs, sat for the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME across the country on Saturday.
Giving this information was JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in an interview on Saturday.
According to the JAMB’s spokesperson, candidates affected include those who were verified at their centres but could not sit for the examination, those who could not be biometrically verified, those with mismatched data among others.
He said the deployment of innovations in the conduct of the exam paid off bountifully as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions.
On when the results of the rescheduled UTME would be released by the examination body, Fabian said the board’s management would analyse the conduct of the exercise after its conclusion before it will a take decision on that.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the rescheduled 2023 UTME.
Adamu, who alongside Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, monitored the examination at the Computer Based Test (CBT) centre located in Mambila Barrack’s, Asokoro, Abuja, expressed delight over the smooth conduct of the exercise.
While stating that no negative incident was recorded in the conduct of the UTME at the CBT centre, the Minister, however, made a case for a temporary holding place for candidates waiting for the scheduled time of the exam.