Afimag.com –
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a new date to start the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME).
In a statement signed by its Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, on April 09, 2023, the board stated the UTME, scheduled to hold on April 29, would now start on April 25, 2023.
The examination body added that it would hold its rescheduled mock-UTME on April 18, 2023. The exercise ran into some technical hitches in some centres, thereby denying some candidates the opportunity to sit for the examination.
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“The board’s mock examination was designed for the purpose of testing its preparedness and that of its partners for the UTME as well as give prospective candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the CBT test environment.
“It is, therefore, in order to give those candidates, who were unable to sit for the examination owing to no fault of theirs, the opportunity to take the examination that the mock examination had been rescheduled to hold on Tuesday, April 18,” it said.
Meanwhile, candidates who were present and screened for the examination but could not sit for the exam will retake the mock examination on April 18, 2023.
The statement further added that the result of the candidates who successfully took the mock examination on March 30, had been released.
“The board had brought forward the conduct of its 2023 UTME which was earlier scheduled to hold from April 29, 2023 to April 25, 2023. The adjustment in the date of the UTME was to accommodate some other major and critical national assignments. By so doing, the board hopes that no citizen will be denied the opportunity of exercising their civic responsibilities.
“It should be noted that the board does not have the liberty of shifting forward its examination as other public examinations are billed to commence their exercises in the early part of May 2023. Yet another factor is the need to accommodate those institutions with stable academic calendar to resume as scheduled,” it added.
