The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that on Saturday, September 24, 2022, it will hold a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for 67 candidates.
According to JAMB, the examination is “for 67 candidates who registered for the 2022 UTME but were unable to sit the examination or take the recently concluded Mop-Up UTME due to one or more challenges, to take their examination at specially-designated centers.”
Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, stated this in a statement issued on Monday morning.
Following the 2022 UTME, the Board reviewed the entire process, and candidates who had biometric challenges were given the opportunity to take a mop-up examination.
The Board also stated that, because a mop-up examination is a stopgap measure, it will not be made a permanent feature of its calendar.
As a result, any candidate who presents any unusual challenge(s) must indicate or declare such peculiarities at the time of registration in order for them to be given special consideration and assigned to centers within the Board’s National Headquarters in Abuja for close monitoring, as the Board had phased out the conduct of mop-up examinations.
“However, in spite of the discovery of a series of suspicious challenges presented by some candidates,” he said, “the Board has scheduled another set of 67 candidates to sit the examination at designated centers, under the close scrutiny of the Board.”
“This decision to give these set of candidates this unusual opportunity is to ensure that no single innocent candidate is punished unjustly,” the statement continued.
These 67 candidates are therefore urged to print their supplementary examination notification slips beginning Monday, September 19, 2022, in order to determine the centers where they will take the examination.”
