UTME: JAMB Admits Hitches For 60,000 Candidates
BY VICTOR BUORO – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says about 60,000 out of the 947,000 candidates that sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within the last two days have experienced hitches in the exercise.
According to the Head of Public Affairs and Protocol of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin; “In the last two days, excluding today, we have examined 947,000 candidates.”
Dr Benjamin, who spoke on Thursday in Abuja after monitoring the ongoing UTME alongside Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede and others, said; “Out of the 947,000 candidates we had issues with about 60,000 candidates and these candidates are being rescheduled for the exam.”
The JAMB Spokesperson, while assuring that all those registered for the exam would have the opportunity to take part in the exercise, said the Board has resolved all the technical hitches observed in the first day of the examination in some centres across the country.
He said; “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 following our exams, you will know that the first day is always turbulent, as we progress we stabilises.”
“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.”
Also speaking on the likely timeframe to release results of the examination, Dr Fabian said the management would announce the results soon, adding; “We are looking at the results and by the grace of God, we will release the first batch of the results soon.”
The 2023 UTME, which commenced on April 25, 2023, is expected to end on 3rd May and by JAMB’s record, over 1.6 million candidates registered for examination.
