The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that about 947,000 candidates have so far sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination from the commencement of the exam on Tuesday.
The examination, to be administered to about 1.6 million candidates between 25 April and 2 May, commenced nationwide on Tuesday, although, it was earlier scheduled to begin on April 29.
Leadership reported that the Head of Public Affairs and Protocol of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known on Thursday, after monitoring the ongoing UTME alongside the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, and others, in Abuja.
Fabian, who assured that everyone who registered for the examination would be given the opportunity to take part in the exercise, said the Board has resolved the technical hitches that was experienced on the first of day of the UTME in some centres across the country.
He said, “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 been following our exams, you will know that the first day is always turbulent, as we progress, we will stabilise and continue the exercise.
“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.
“We are looking at the results and by the grace of God, we will release the first batch of the results soon.”
