JAMB Grants Opportunity For Candidates Who Missed CBT Exams

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has agreed to reschedule examination for candidates who missed the UTME,CBT exams due to the relocation of centres by the board. Following the board’s relocation of 59,000 candidates in 15 states because of problems in some of the centres which cost them the exam, the affected candidates had carried out series of protests in some states of the country against the examination body. Professor Dibu Ojerinde who is the registrar of the board disclosed this while speaking at a press conference in Abuja on Friday, he assured that candidates who had system failure during the examination would retake it, if the board finds their complaint to be genuine. His words: “We relocated about 59, 000 candidates due to the problems in various centres which vary from town to town. There are about 59,000 of them spread across 15 states of the federation. “Those that were relocated never suffered any setback or inconvenience. For all these two sets of people, I want to apologise sincerely for what happened to them, but we are going to put on a redress for those whose relocation affected them in missing their examination.” According to him, the new development does not affect candidates who missed the examination deliberately or failed in the examination, he said among the 1,546,633 candidates who sat for the 2016 UTME, 145, 704 had issues of multiple results which have been resolved by the board. “Going back to the Paper and Pencil Test will amount to taking one step forward and two steps backwards,” the JAMB boss stated Thanks for reading.

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