The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced a new date for the commencement of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations.
The board disclosed this in a statement signed by its Head
of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja on Sunday.
Benjamin said the UTME which was earlier scheduled to
commence on April 29, would now start on April 25, 2023.
He also said the board would hold its rescheduled mock-UTME
on April 18, 2023.
JAMB had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on
Thursday, March 30, in 725 centres
across the country.
However, the exercise ran into some technical hitches in
some centres, thereby denying some candidates the opportunity to sit for the examination.
The board’s mock examination was designed for the purpose of
testing its preparedness and that of its partners for the UTME as well as give
prospective candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the CBT
test environment.
It is, therefore, in order to give those candidates, who
were unable to sit for the examination owing to no fault of theirs, the
opportunity to take the examination that the mock examination had been rescheduled
to hold on Tuesday, April 18,” he said.
He said candidates who were present and screened for the
examination but could not sit for it had been rescheduled to retake the mock examination on April 18.
Benjamin, therefore, said the result of the candidates who
successfully took the mock examination on March 30, had been released.
He also said the board had brought forward the conduct of
its 2023 UTME which was earlier scheduled to hold from Saturday, April 29, to
Tuesday, April 25.
He said the adjustment in the date of the UTME was to
accommodate some other major and critical national assignments.
”By so doing, the board hopes that no citizen will be denied
the opportunity of exercising their civic responsibilities.
”It should be noted that the board does not have the liberty
of shifting forward its examination as other public examinations are billed to
commence their exercises in the early part of May 2023.
“Yet another factor is the need to accommodate those
institutions with stable academic calendar to resume as scheduled,” he added.
He said the board would continue to partner with relevant
agencies of government to ensure that its candidates got the best.
He said the board also solicited the understanding of all as
it delivered on its critical mandate.
NAN