About 1.4 million candidates have so far participated in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) ongoing across the country since it began on Friday, May 6, the Joint Board of Admissions and Matriculation (JAMBA) has said.
JAMB, in its weekly bulletin published on Monday, said that a total of 526,119 candidates participated on Friday; 506,868 on Saturday; and 391,849 on Monday.
He added that 262,885 candidates have been scheduled to take their tests on Tuesday; 72,433 on Wednesday and 793 on Thursday.
Visually impaired candidates are expected to take the exam between Thursday and Saturday, May 14, when this year’s edition of the exam is expected to end.
UTME’s conduct for candidates with visual changes is generally carried out by JAMB’s equal opportunities group, which is led by a former executive secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Peter Okebukola.
In 2021, the committee conducted the exam at some 11 centers across the country representing specific states and regions, with the testing body bearing the costs of transportation, accommodation and food for the candidates and their companions.
unanswered complaints
Meanwhile, despite complaints from the candidates and their parents, JAMB has remained silent.
In addition to candidates who claimed to have missed their exams due to poor biometric capture machines, others reported technical issues such as incomplete questions, power failures, and abrupt shutdowns of computer systems in the middle of exams.
But instead of addressing those concerns, JAMB said that reports from various centers “have indicated that there have been no significant concerns as the reports coming out of the states established the veracity of reports previously received from the various center accreditation teams.” ”.
The examining body said it will soon start publishing the results of candidates who have already taken the tests.
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“However, the release of these results is with the caveat that after viewing CCTV footage of the examination taking place, any candidate’s result found to be substandard will be withdrawn if it has been published or withheld if not yet released. has published,” he said. .
Number of candidates by state
JAMB said that a total of 1,730,947 are taking the tests across the country, with a large part of the candidates in Lagos, Oyo, Kaduna and Kano states.
According to the examining body, Lagos has the largest number of candidates with 257,887; followed by Oyo with 98,834 and Ogun with 95,965 candidates.
Others are Kaduna with 94,113; Kano with 77,830; FCT with 77,705 and Rivers with 76,388.
The states with the lowest enrollment figures are Zamfara with 6,668; Yobe (12,362), Ebonyi (12,600), Kebbi (16,619) and Jigawa with 19,195.
The figures are the number of candidates taking the exams in these states, regardless of the candidate’s home states.
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