The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it had conducted a rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) last Saturday for 67 candidates who had registered for the 2022 UTME, but could neither sit the examination nor take the just-concluded Mop-up UTME due to some challenges.
The board therefore, asked the affected candidates to start printing their notification slips from Monday September 19.
A statement from JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, to Blueprint Monday, said after the 2022 UTME, the board had reviewed the entire exercise and those candidates with biometric challenges were given the opportunity to make-up.
The Board had earlier announced that since the conduct of the mop-up examination is a stopgap measure, it would not be allowed to be a permanent feature of its calendar.
“Therefore, any candidate presenting any strange challenge(s) would have to indicate or declare such peculiarities at the point of registration for them to be given special consideration and allocated to centres within National Headquarters, Abuja, for close monitoring, as the Board had phased out the conduct of mop-up examinations.
“However, in spite of the discovery of a series of suspicious challenges presented by some candidates, the Board has, on account of its avowed commitment to equity and fairness, scheduled another set of 67 candidates to sit the examination at designated centres, under close supervision of the Board,” Benjamind said.
According to the statement, the decision to give those set of candidates that grace was to ensure that no single innocent candidate was punished unjustly.
“These 67 candidates are, therefore, urged to print their supplementary examination notification slips from today, Monday, September 19 ,2022, to know the centres where they would be sitting the examination,” he said.
