The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the rescheduled 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Adamu, who applauded the smooth conduct of the examination monitored the 2023 Jamb Computer Based Test CBT, along with the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, at the CBT centre located in Mambila Barrack’s, Asokoro, Abuja.
According to the Minister, “I am very happy with what I have seen. The (temporary) holding room (for candidates), and the arrangement in where they are taking the examination, I think everything is in order”
Call for Holding Room
While saying no negative incident was recorded in the conduct of the UTME at the CBT centre, the minister, called for a temporary holding place for candidates waiting for the scheduled time of the exam.
“Everything is okay, have you seen any problem? Perhaps they should have a class for the holding room, I think that is the only improvement they will make here,” Adamu said.
Meanwhile, Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in an interview on Saturday, said 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 JAMB’s spokesperson, the candidates affected include those who were verified at their centres but could not sit the examination, those who could not be biometrically verified, and those with mismatched data, among others.
He said the deployment of innovations in the conduct of the exam paid off bountifully as the exercise recorded the lowest reported cases of infractions.
“In this year’s UTME, the issue of examination malpractices was reduced to almost zero level,” Fabian said.
On when the results of the rescheduled UTME would be released by the examination body, Fabian said the board’s management will analyse the conduct of the exercise after its conclusion before it will a take decision on that.
Recall that the Board had on Tuesday released the results of candidates who had earlier taken part in the exam that commenced on Tuesday, 25th April.
A total of 1,586,765 candidates indicated an interest in sitting for the 2023 UTME.
Dominica Nwabufo
