The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that about 947,000 candidates sat for the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within two days.
The Board said about 60,000 candidates were affected by technical issues and would be retaking the examination.
This was revealed by the board’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin following the monitoring of the examination alongside the JAMB boss, Professor Is-haq Oloyede and others on Thursday April 27 in Abuja.
He said every candidate who registered for the examination would be given the chance to participate in the exercise.
He said the board has found solution to the technical issues experienced on the first day of the examination in some centres across Nigeria.
The Informant247 recalls that 1.6 million persons applied for the 2023 examination which began April 25 and to be concluded on May 3.
The Board despite the technical issues, described the 2023 examination as one of the best examinations conducted so far.
Benjamin said, “This is the best examination we have had over a period of time, but I know many will like to contest that because of what happened on Tuesday, but I know if you have been in the system and be following our exams, you will know that the first day is always turbulent, as we progress we stabilise and continue the exercise.
“And one assurance we want to give Nigerians is that every candidate that has registered for this examination, he or she will certainly be given the opportunity to take the examination.
“On the first day, there were candidates who were unable to sit for the examination because of technical issues and we have rescheduled those candidates, some of them are taking the exam as we speak and some will also take tomorrow.
“We urge candidates particularly those who could not sit for Wednesday’s exercise to continue to check their profile and print their slip as we reschedule them for the examination.”
“We are looking at the results and by the grace of God, we will release the first batch of the results soon,” he said.
“In the last two days, excluding today, we have examined 947, 000 candidates. Out of the 947,000 candidates we had issues with about 60,000 candidates and these candidates are being rescheduled (for the exam).
“If you are to give a pass mark, out of 900,000, you had an issue with 60,000, it is a fair share, but that is not to say even if it is one candidate that is unable to sit for the exam we are not concerned,” Fabian said, even as he assured that all candidates will sit for the exam.