The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced a rescheduled date for applicants who were unable to appear for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME.
Candidates who missed their scheduled exams would retake it on Saturday, May 6, 2023, according to JAMB.
According to the Boardâs spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, applicants in these categories are mostly those who were verified at their centers but were unable to sit for the examination, those who were unable to be biometrically verified, and those with mismatched data.
Remember that the Board set the 2023 UTME from Tuesday, April 25th to Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023.
In addition, JAMB warned Nigerians that it will use certain fresh and inventive approaches in conducting the examination with the goal of fully eliminating examination violations.
However, Benjamin, in a statement, said: âThis has been largely achieved as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions but with equally emerging challenges on account of human negligence which led to some candidates not being able to sit the examination on the first day. This notwithstanding, out of the 1,586,765 candidates that indicated interest in sitting the examination, only 80,166 are now outstanding.
âOn the first day of the 2023 UTME, a number of candidates in some centres could not sit the examination as well as in some centres in subsequent days due to diverse reasons. Though a reasonable number of them have been rescheduled and have taken the examination, some are yet to take their examination.
âAs part of the decisions reached at the end of an emergency management meeting held on Sunday, 31st April, 2023, the Board has fixed Saturday, 6th May, 2023, for all categories of candidates who have not sat their examination, as listed below, to take their examination.â
JAMB also listed the categories of candidates that would take the examination below.
Unverified candidates
âThese are candidates, who were registered for the 2023 UTME without manifesting any biometric difficulty but who could not be verified on the day of the examination.
These candidates had not previously manifested any fingerprint defect or experienced any biometric challenge during the 2023 UTME registration but could not be verified to sit the examination on their scheduled examination date.
These candidates will be taking their examination in Abuja, under close supervision.
Candidates at beautiful beginning CBT centre in Apo, Abuja
All candidates, who were scheduled to sit the 2023 UTME at the Beautiful Beginning CBT Centre, Apo, Abuja, but missed the examination for whatever reason have been rescheduled to take the examination on Saturday, 6th May, 2023.
The rescheduling of all the candidates who missed the examination is as a result of the mistake made in the address of the centre, which had led to some candidates missing their examination.
It should be noted that the name of the centre which is Beautiful Beginning CBT Centre, Apo, Abuja, featured âGwagwaladaâ rather than âApoâ hence misleading the candidates.
As a responsible organisation, the Board would not abdicate its responsibilities and has consequently rescheduled all candidates posted to the centre, who could not sit their examination on account of the wrong address or any other reason, to ensure that no candidate misses the examination.
Candidates rescheduled to take the examination on Thursday, 27th April, but who could not receive the notification
Also, to take the examination along with the unverified candidates on Saturday, 6th May, 2023, are those candidates, who had been rescheduled to retake their examination on Thursday, 27th April, 2023, but who received their notification late on Thursday night and so missed their examination.
Some of these candidates could not receive the notification because their schools held onto their channels of receiving messages such as their SIM cards, their e-mail addresses and profile codes.
The Board, in spite of its repeated warnings that its processes are not school-based and would not take responsibility for any of such challenges, is bending over backwards to accommodate these sets of candidates, who have also been rescheduled to sit the examination on Saturday, 6th May, 2023.
Candidate in centres with reduced capacity
Among the candidates, who have not taken their examination, are those whose centres could not carry their full capacity of 250 and, such, had to be batched with some of these centres taking 150 candidates rather than the 250 allotted to them per session. Some of these remaining candidates in the batched sessions have also been rescheduled and have taken the examination but some are yet to do so.
Candidates with data mismatch
For obvious reasons, some CBT centres mismatched the data of some candidates they registered. This was also made possible by the carelessness of these candidates who could not avail themselves of the Boardâs provision of dual screens to monitor the course of their registration.
These categories of candidates could not sit the examination as their mismatched personal details could not be rectified early enough to enable them to sit their examination at their scheduled time.
The process of rectifying their data is ongoing and they will also be scheduled to sit the examination on Saturday, 6th May, 2023.
Release of results
The Board will be releasing the results of candidates who have taken the examination so far on Tuesday, 2nd May, 2023. The Board had delayed the release to ensure that all necessary screenings are concluded besides ensuring that the mean and standard deviation are reasonably obtained before releasing these results.
As candidates check their results on Tuesday, 2nd May, 2023, those who sat the examination but had challenges without being aware of such, would not see their results but would instead see their notification for rescheduled examination.
Consequently, all candidates who sat the examination are urged to check their results on or before Thursday, 8th May, 2023.
Printing of rescheduled examination notification slip
All candidates under the categories listed above are required to print their slips on or before Thursday, 4th-5th May, 2023, so as to know the time and venue of their examination.
Candidates are to note that they would be grouped in a central location within their respective States to sit the examination hence the need for them to print their notification slips latest by Thursday, 4th May, 2023, so as to make sufficient arrangements to sit the examination. CONTINUE READING………………………………………….
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