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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rescheduled the computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) for candidates who have experienced problems in their centres.
The affected candidates, whose inability to take the tests were not their fault, will now sit for the test on Saturday, May 6, JAMB spokesperson Fabian Benjamin announced on Monday.
He said the development was part of the decisions taken at the emergency meeting of the JAMB management on Sunday.
JAMB said out of the 1,586,765 candidates who expressed interest in taking the examination, only 80,166 are now outstanding.
The board last Tuesday rescheduled the tests for candidates who had technical problems on the first day of the tests, fixing new schedules from April 26 to May 2.
New Date
“As part of the decisions taken at the end of an emergency management meeting held on Sunday, April 30, 2023, the Board has fixed Saturday, May 6, 2023 for all categories of candidates who have not appeared for the examination as listed below. , to study,” said Mr. Benjamin.
He said that the affected candidates should print their admit cards on or before Thursday to know the time and venue of the examination.
Candidates affected
Mr. Benjamin listed the categories of affected candidates; those who could not be verified in their centers but could not be examined, those who could not be verified biometrically and data that did not match.
He said the first category of candidates should take the examinations in Abuja, in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) of Nigeria, under “hand supervision”.
These candidates, according to him, are those who registered for the 2023 UTME without any biometric difficulties, but could not be verified on the day of the examination.
Abuja Center challenge
The second category, JAMB said, are candidates who sat for the 2023 UTME at the Beautiful Beginning CBT Centre, Apo, Abuja but failed the examination. They have scheduled the exam on Saturday, May 6, he said.
“The rescheduling of all the candidates who missed the examination was due to the error in the address of the center, which caused some candidates to fail the examination,” he said.
“It should be noted that the name of the center which is Beautiful Beginning CBT Center, Apo, Abuja featured “Gwagwalada” instead of “Apo” thereby misleading the candidates”.
Mr. Benjamin said: “The board would not shirk its responsibilities and has therefore rescheduled all candidates sent to the center who could not take the exam due to wrong address or any other reason to ensure that no candidate misses an exam.”
The third category is the candidates who were rescheduled to take the exam on April 27 but could not receive the notification.
“Some of these candidates were unable to receive notification because their school retained channels for receiving messages such as SIM cards, email addresses and profile codes,” Mr Benjamin said.
He therefore cautioned schools that UTME is not a school-based examination.
Other candidates affected
Other candidates affected by the development, according to the council, are candidates whose data does not match, as well as those whose centers could not carry the full capacity of 250, and thus “some of these centers had to join instead of taking 150 candidates. The 250 allocated to them per session”.
“For obvious reasons, some CBT centers did not match the data of some candidates who registered. This was also possible due to the carelessness of these candidates, who could not take advantage of the provision of double screens by the Board to monitor the whereabouts of the registration,” he said.
He said that the process of correcting their data is underway and that they will conduct an examination on Saturday, May 6.
“Some of these candidates remaining in the session groups have also been rescheduled and taken the exam, but some are yet to take it,” he added.
Qosim Suleiman is a reporter for Premium Times in partnership with Report for the World, which teams local newsrooms with emerging talent to report on under-reported issues around the world.
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