The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that the results of those who have already took the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be released on Tuesday, May 2.
As a result, JAMB has requested all students who have already taken the exam to check their results on or before Thursday, May 4.
In a statement issued on Monday, its spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, noted that the release of the results was deliberately delayed to ensure that all necessary screening was completed, as well as that the mean and standard deviation were adequately determined before releasing the results.
He did, however, reveal that some candidates who sat the exam would not see their results, but would instead receive notification of a rescheduled assessment since they encountered difficulties throughout the exercise without being aware of it.
Meanwhile, JAMB has announced that some candidates who had issues that prevented them from fully participating in the exercise have been rescheduled to take the exam on Saturday, May 6, 2023, under close supervision.
According to JAMB, individuals affected are those who were confirmed at their centers but were unable to sit for the examination, those who were unable to be biometrically verified, and those with mismatched data.
Others are all candidates who were scheduled to take the exam at the Beautiful Beginning CBT Centre in Apo, Abuja, but did not show up due to an error in the address released by JAMB, which resulted in some candidates missing the exam.
“It should be noted that the centre’s name, Beautiful Beginning CBT Centre, Apo, Abuja, included “Gwagwalada” instead of “Apo,” according to JAMB, “misled the applicants.”
Other candidates affected include those who were rescheduled to retake their exam on Thursday, April 27th, 2023, but received notification late on Thursday night and therefore missed the exam.
JAMB admitted that some candidates were unable to receive notifications because their schools held the channels of communication, such as their SIM cards, e-mail addresses, and profile codes, despite JAMB’s repeated warnings that the UTME was never a school-based exercise.
Candidates whose centers could not carry their maximum capacity of 250 were also rescheduled, with some centers taking 150 candidates less than the 250 allotted to them every session.
“Some of the remaining candidates in the batched sessions have also been rescheduled and have taken the examination, but some are yet to do so,” JAMB added.
JAMB advised candidates to print their notification slips by Thursday, 4th-5th May 2023, in order to know the time and place of their test.
“Candidates would be grouped in a central location within their respective States to sit the examination, hence the need to print the notification slips so as to make sufficient arrangements to sit the examination,” JAMB added.
This, it said was largely achieved since the 2023 UTME exercise had the fewest reported occurrences of violations, but there were also increasing issues due to human error, which resulted in some candidates being unable to sit for the examination on the first day. Despite this, only 80,166 of the 1,586,765 candidates who registered for the exam were affected and rescheduled.
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