Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) ‘s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, speaking to journalists Saturday, said 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 UTME across the country.
The spokesperson said 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 examination paid off bountifully as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions.
“In this year’s UTME, issue of examination malpractices was reduced to almost zero level,” Benjamin said.
On when the results of the rescheduled UTME would be released by the examination body, Fabian said the board’s management will analyse the conduct of the exercise after its conclusion before it will take a decision on that.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the rescheduled 2023 UTME.
Adamu, who alongside Registrar of 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.
He said, “I am very happy with what I have seen. The (temporary) holding room (for candidates), and the arrangement in where they are taking the examination, I think everything is in order.”
While saying no any 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.
“Everything is okay, have you seen any problem? Perhaps they should have a class for the holding room, I think that is the only improvement they will make here,” Adamu said.
He added that the deployment of innovations in the conduct of the exam paid off bountifully as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions.
“In this year’s UTME, issue of examination malpractices was reduced to almost zero level,” Fabian said.
