JAMB reschedules 2023 UTME for outstanding candidates for May 6

By David Awoyemi

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the resch edule of outstanding cand idates 2023, who were unable to write exams, due to different hitch to re-sit on May 6.

This is contained in a statement by the board’s Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja on Monday.

Benjamin said candidates under these categories were those who were verified at their centres but could not sit for the examination, those who could not be biometrically verified, and those with mismatched data.

As it was noted earlier that the Board scheduled the conduct of the 2023 UTME from April 25 to May 2, which it is equally noted that the Board had informed Nigerians that it would be using some novel innovative methods in conducting the exercise with the aim of completely arresting incidences of examination infractions.

Which 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 had led to some candidates not being able to sit the examination on the first day.

“Meanwhile, out of the 1,586,765 candidates that indicated interest in sitting for the examination, only 80,166 are now outstanding,” he said.

Further commenting on the first day of the UTME, a number of candidates in some centres could not sit for the examination as well as in some centres for subsequent days due to diverse reasons.

According to Bolaji, some numbers of the candidates had been rescheduled and had taken the examination, while some are yet to take their examination.

“As part of the decisions reached at the end of an emergency management meeting held on April 30, the Board had therefore fixed Saturday, May 6, for all categories of candidates who have not sat their examination.”

As he listed some candidates , scheduled to take the unverified candidates, while others he said were candidates rescheduled to take the examination on April 27 but could not receive the notification slip and candidates in centres with reduced capacity.

As he further added that the Board would be releasing the results of candidates, who had taken the examinations on May 2.

Meanwhile, the Board had delayed the release of examination to ensure that all necessary screening were concluded while also ensuring that the mean and standard deviation were reasonably obtained before releasing the results.

However, result would be available for candidates to check as from Tuesday, May 2, 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 successfully sat for their exams are urged to check their result on or before May 2, 2023.”