JAMB to conduct supplementary exam for 67 candidates

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has scheduled Saturday for the conduct of supplementary examination for 67 candidates, who had registered for the 2022 UTME, but failed to sit for it.

The board said in a statement signed by its spokesperson Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the exam is for candidates who could neither sit for the examination nor take the just-concluded Mop-Up UTME owing to one challenge or another, and that they should take their examination at specially-designated centres.

After the 2022 UTME, the Board had reviewed the entire exercise and those candidates with biometric challenges were given the opportunity of sitting a mop-up examination.

The Board also announced that since the conduct of a mop-up examination is a stopgap measure, it would not be allowed to be a permanent feature of its calendar.

“Therefore, any candidate presenting any strange challenge(s) would have to indicate or declare such peculiarities at the point of registration for them to be given special consideration and allocated to centres within its National Headquarters, Abuja, for close monitoring as the Board had phased out the conduct of mop-up examinations,” he said.

Benjamin said in spite of the discovery of series of suspicious challenges presented by some candidates, the Board has, on account of its avowed commitment to equity and fairness, scheduled another set of 67 candidates to sit the examination at designated centres, under close scrutiny of the Board.

He said the decision to give these set of candidates the unusual opportunity is to ensure that no single innocent candidate is punished unjustly.

The 67 candidates were, therefore, urged to print their supplementary examination notification slips from Monday, 19th September, 2022, to know the centres where they would be sitting the examination.