The Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) saturday said it would henceforth ensure the resolution of
all exam issues before releasing results of its Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME),
to avoid cancellation.
JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Mr.
Fabian Benjamin, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria
(NAN) in Bwari, FCT, while speaking on the outcome of the mop-up
examination results.
He disclosed that the results of
supplementary examination conducted by the Board on July 1 in 170
centres for 85, 000 candidates across the country had been released. He
explained that the result was delayed to ascertain there were no hitches
all the centres that the supplementary exam was conducted.
“The results had been ready as usual; we
release results two hours after examination; this delay was because we
wanted to take our time to clear all issues.
“This is also to ensure that all the
CCTV at centres we conducted mop-up examinations were adequately fixed;
we do not want situation where we release results before thinking of
cancelling it.
“What we want to be doing now as we have
started with this mop-up examination, and will be doing in 2018, is to
ensure all issues are resolved before releasing results. It is our view
that there is no need rushing to release results; it is better to do
whatever is supposed to have been done, before we release the results,”
he said.
He urged candidates yet to receive their supplementary examination results, not to panic, saying that no result from the mop-up examination was outstanding.
He urged candidates yet to receive their supplementary examination results, not to panic, saying that no result from the mop-up examination was outstanding.
He said the breakdown of the 2017 UTME
result could not be published at the moment since the Board was yet to
conduct exam for foreign candidates.
“We are still writing exam and it will
be unfair to publish the whole results when people are still writing. We
just rolled out forms for foreign centres, so once we finish that,
which is not going to take long, we will do the analysis and come to a
conclusion,” Benjamin said.
NAN reports that 85,000 candidates of
the 1.7 million enrolled for the 2017 UTME had registered late for the
exam as a result of some challenges.
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