Over 1.5 million candidates sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Nationwide.
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu who alongside Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, monitored the rescheduled UTME at the Computer Based Test (CBT) centre located in Mambila Barrack’s, Asokoro, on Saturday in Abuja expressed satisfaction over the conduct of the exercise.
He said : “I am very happy with what I have seen. The (temporary) holding room (for candidates) , and the arrangement in where they are taking the examination, I think everything is in order.
While saying no any negative incident was recorded in the conduct of the UTME at the CBT centre, the minister, however, made a case for a temporary holding place for candidates waiting for the scheduled time of the exam.
“Everything is okay, have you seen any problem? Perhaps they should have a class for the holding room, I think that is the only improvement they will make here,” Adamu said.
Meanwhile, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in an interview on Saturday, said about 80,000 candidates, who could not sit for the 2023 UTME within their scheduled time owing to no fault of theirs, sat for the rescheduled UTME across the country.
According to the JAMB’s spokesperson, candidates affected include those who were verified at their centres but could not sit the examination, those who could not be biometrically verified, those with mismatched data, among others.
He said the deployment of innovations in the conduct of the exam paid off bountifully as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions.
“In this year’s UTME, issue of examination malpractices was reduced to almost zero level,” Fabian said.
Fabian said the board’s management will analyse the conduct of the exercise after its conclusion before it will a take decision on when the results of the rescheduled UTME would be released
Recall that the Board had on Tuesday released results of candidates who had earlier took part in the exam, that commenced on Tuesday, 25th April.
