The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates whose examinations were disrupted that they would be rescheduled to write them at a later date.
The Public Communication Advisor of JAMB, Dr Fabian Benjamin, stated this during the Senate Committee on Tertiary Education’s monitoring of the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital.
Benjamin was responding to questions raised by parents and candidates whose examinations were disrupted at the Good Success Computer-Based Test (CBT) Centre, Utako, Abuja.
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Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Mohammed Dandutse, agreed that JAMB and CBT centres were faced with some challenges but promised to resolve them.
“From what we have seen, we have seen progress and we have seen a lot of challenges faced by the centres.
“And this one is not only in Abuja, it’s throughout the country. The issue is a technical issue, it happened yesterday and it also happened today, which was explained by the supervisor,” he said.
According to Dandutse, as a body solely responsible for oversight and investigating matters arising from the JAMB exam, the Senate will look into how best JAMB can improve its activities.
He acknowledged that technical glitches are expected in a large-scale exam but said affected candidates will be rescheduled and given another opportunity, including during mop-up exams.
Dandutse added that only a few centres experienced failures and efforts are ongoing to minimise disruptions.