The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Sunday announced a supplementary exam for some candidates with certain infractions in the last UTME.
In a statement signed by the board’s spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, the board said it is in response to requests and pleas of many stakeholders as well as authorities concerned.
The statement said: “The board has painstakingly analysed the process and conduct of the 2024 UTME in some centres where there are strong proofs of substantial non-compliance with the board’s standards. Consequently, 24,535 candidates have been rescheduled to retake the examination in their chosen examination towns on Saturday, June 22, 2024.”
The board also announced that outstanding 2024 UTME results that had been cleared have now been released. Therefore, concerned candidates are urged to check their results from Saturday, 1st June, 2024 by sending RESULT to 55019 or 66019 to ascertain their status as those cleared would have their results while those rescheduled would be told that they had been rescheduled.
The board, Dr Benjamin said, also yielded to the overwhelming request for an extension period for the 2024 Direct Entry (DE) registration which is now to end on June 17, 2024 instead of the earlier date.
This is even as it has equally approved the expansion of registration centres in some states like Lagos, Kwara, Oyo and Osun states.
On the vexatious issue of Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS) and the Kwara State University (KWASU) on CAILS-KWASU Diploma programme, the statement noted that the board has agreed to conduct a special registration exercise for the 3,633 prospective candidates who did not participate in the 2024 UTME, based on the assumption that they would be accommodated in the 2024 DE exercise.
“These candidates are therefore to register at any of the approved CBT centres in Kwara, Oyo or Osun states within the next one week ending on Monday, 10th June, 2024 while the 469 others among this category of UTME candidates who had already taken the 2024 UTME need not retake the examination. The one they have already taken suffices.
“This concession is to ensure that while standards are being maintained, efforts are in place to support and promote the aspirations of qualified and willing candidates even if it requires bending over backwards.”