The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says about 947,000 candidates have so far sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within the last two days.
Dr. Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Affairs and Protocol of
the Board, made this known after monitoring the ongoing UTME alongside
Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede and others, on Thursday in Abuja.
Fabian, who assured that everyone registered for the exam
would be given the opportunity to take part in the exercise, said the Board has
resolved the technical hitches that was experienced in the first of day the
UTME in some centres across the country.
“This is the best exam we have had over a period of time,
but I know many will like to contest that because of what happened on Tuesday,
but I know if you have been in the system and be following our exams, you will
know that the first day is always turbulent, as we progress we stabilise and
continue the exercise.
“And one assurance we want to give Nigerians, is that every
candidate that has registered for this examination, he or she will certainly be
given the opportunity to take the examination.
“On the first day, there were candidates who were unable to
sit for the examination because of technical issues and we have rescheduled
those candidates, some of them are taking the exam as we speak and some will
also take tomorrow.
“We urge candidates particularly those who could not sit for
yesterday’s exercise to continue to check their profile and print their slip as
we reschedule them for the examination.” He said.
Asked on when the results of the results of the examination
would be released, Dr Fabian said the management would announce the results
soon.
On the number of candidates that have encountered technical
issues in sitting for the examination, he said : “In the last two days,
excluding today, we have examined 947, 000 candidates. Out of the 947,000
candidates we had issues with about 60,000 candidates and these candidates are
being rescheduled (for the exam).
“If you are to give a pass mark, out of 900,000, you had
issue with 60,000, it is a fair share, but that is not to say even if it is one
candidate that is unable to sit for the exam we are not concerned,” Fabian
said, even as he assured that all candidates will sit for the exam”.
Recall that over 1.5 million registered for the 2023 UTME
which commenced on April 25th and is expected to end on 3rd May.