JAMB will begin officially releasing results for the 2023 UTME.

 

The Head of the Public Affairs and Protocol Unit of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Fabian Benjamin, has stated that the examining body is now in the process of amending the substance of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Mr. Benjamin has indicated that the outcomes of the examinations that have been completed by students since Tuesday will be made available to the public as soon as the final kinks in the plan have been worked out.

On Thursday, after having taken the test in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, Mr. Benjamin made this observation.

We are currently in the middle of a meeting. We are currently going over the data, and by the grace of God, we should be able to release the preliminary findings very soon," he remarked.

JAMB is lauded

In the meantime, the official from JAMB stated that the test that was administered this year was "one of the best" that the organization had ever administered.

Mr. Benjamin made this declaration on Tuesday, despite the fact that there were issues on Tuesday, which was the first day of the countrywide exam. The applicants who were affected had to reschedule their examinations because of the issue, which, according to JAMB, was observed at about one hundred computer-based test sites.

He made the observation that "this is one of the best examinations we've had over the time." In light of the events that took place on Tuesday, I believe that a lot of people will want to question the validity of that argument. If you have been following our practice for any significant amount of time, you are aware that the first tests we perform are frequently the most chaotic, but that things do ultimately become more orderly, and that we carry on with the exercise anyway.

Mr. Benjamin revealed that only 64,000 out of 947,000 people who took the test since Tuesday had experienced technical difficulties; the board had rescheduled the exams of these persons for other sessions.

In order to secure admission into Nigerian universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and monotechnics, around 1.6 million candidates are required to take the tests by Tuesday, May 2.

He came to the conclusion that, "out of 947,000, you have issues in about 60,000 I think it's a fair share," in the event that a passing mark was to be granted for the exercise.

Mr. Benjamin gave the assurance that all registered applicants will be given the opportunity to take the examinations, notwithstanding the fact that the board cannot guarantee Nigerians that there will not be any technical snags during the testing process.

On the first day of the exam, there were some technical issues that prevented some of the students from taking their exams. As a result, we had to postpone those students' tests. He went on to explain that some of the students had already moved on to the fourth session of the class, while others would start the course the next day.

To this end, "we also urge candidates, particularly those who couldn't sit for yesterday's exercise, to continue checking their profile in order to print their slips as they will be rescheduled to take the examinations at a later date." This is particularly important for candidates who were unable to participate in yesterday's exercise.

This publication stated on Tuesday that candidates who visited centres in Lagos and Abuja encountered very few, if any, difficulties or delays during their visits. JAMB was the source of the technical difficulty that was occurring at their centre, as one of the centre supervisors indicated. The governing body made the decision to reschedule the test for anyone who encountered difficulties earlier in the day.