This year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) will now hold on 25th April, four days earlier than the initial 29th April, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced on Sunday.
In a statement in Abuja, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin said the board would hold the rescheduled mock-UTME on 18th April.
Benjamin said: “JAMB had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on Thursday, 30th March in 725 centres across the country.
“However, the exercise ran into some technical hitches in some centres, thereby denying some candidates the opportunity to sit for the examination.
“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 (Computer Based Test) 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, 18th April”.
He said that candidates who were present and screened for the examination but could not sit for it had been rescheduled to retake the mock examination on 18th April.
Benjamin further said that the result of the candidates who successfully took the mock examination on 30th March had been released.
He said 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”, he added.
He said the board would continue to partner with relevant agencies of government to ensure that its candidates got the best.
Benjamin said the board also solicited the understanding of all as it delivered on its critical mandate.
