The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board has revealed that 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 PUNCH, this was disclosed by the JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in an interview with journalists on Saturday.
He said the impacted applicants included those who were confirmed at their centres but were unable to take the test, those who could not be validated using biometrics, and those whose data did not match.
The exam, according to him, had the fewest reported incidents of infractions due to the use of innovations in its administration.
“In this year’s UTME, the issue of examination malpractices was reduced to almost zero level,” Benjamin said.
Benjamin stated that the board’s administration will review the conduct of the exercise when it is through before it makes a decision on when the results of the rescheduled UTME will be issued by the examination body.
