.....Says 947,000 take exam in 2 days
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB,has assured all candidates that registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME that they would participate in the examination exercise.
This came as the board disclosed that about 947,000
candidates have so far sat for the examination between Tuesday and Wednesday.
Speaking newsmen, JAMB's spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, insisted that
the board has resolved the technical glitches that was experienced in the first day of UTME in some centres across the country.
Recall that many candidates scheduled to participate in the examination exercise on the first day could not write due to technical glitches.
However, speaking, Benjamin claimed that:“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 be following our exams, you will know that the first day is always turbulent, as we progress we stabilise and continue the exercise,"he said.
He spoke further:"“And one assurance we want to give Nigerians, is that every candidate that has registered for this examination, he or she will certainly be given the opportunity to take the examination.
” 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.”
He said the management would announce the results soon.
” We are looking at the results and by the grace of God, we will release the first batch of the results soon,” he said.
On the number of candidates that have encountered technical issues in sitting for the examination, he said : “In the last two days, excluding today, we have examined 947, 000 candidates. Out of the 947,000 candidates we had issues with about 60,000 candidates and these candidates are being rescheduled for the examination.
” If you are to give a pass mark, out of 900,000, you had issue with 60,000, it is a fair share, but that is not to say even if it is one candidate that is unable to sit for the exam we are not concerned,” Fabian said, even as he assured that all candidates will sit for the exam.
Over 1.5 million candidates registered for the 2023 UTME which commenced on Tuesday, April 25,2023.
The exercise is expected to come to an end on May 3, 2023.
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