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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of over 84,000 candidates who sat for the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME mock examination yesterday.

The candidates wrote the rescheduled examination in 387 centres across the country.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, which announced this on Wednesday morning in a statement by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, said the exercise was successful.

The announcement came as JAMB vowed that the results of the main UTME would not be released piecemeal but holistically “as the entire results of the entire eight-day exercise would be collated before they would be released to candidates.”

Recall that JAMB had earlier conducted the mock examination on Thursday, March 30,2023. However, some candidates could not sit for the mock examination on account of some technical challenges.

Recall also that the mock examination was introduced by JAMB to test the preparedness of its facilities as well as give candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the Computer-Based Test,CBT environment.

The statement said,”From the foregoing, it is clear that the Board would not shy away from taking much-needed steps aimed at transforming the conduct of public examinations in Nigeria. “

It further read:”With the successful conduct of the mock examination, it became crystal clear that all the  challenges encountered which had led to the rescheduled mock examination were necessary experiences that would serve to make the system even better as the Board has now consolidated the software and is ready to give Nigerians the best.

“Consequently, the results of the examination has since been released by the Board.

“However, the Board would like to stress that the prompt release of results for the mock examination would not be replicated during the upcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME) scheduled to commence from  25th April, 2023.

“As such, the Board stated that for the main UTME, the results would not be released piecemeal but holistically as the entire results of the entire eight-day exercise would be collated before they would be released to candidates.

“It is to be noted that the Board embarked on the screening of results to ensure that any UTME results obtained by any candidate is not a product of infractions and other unwholesome practices. This measure ensures that the Board would not have to release any particular result and then recall same on account of established case of malpractice.

” In the same vein, assessing the entire results enables the Board to obtain the overall standard deviation and the mean of the performance of all the candidates who sat the examination.

“By doing this, the Board is able to aggregate the general performance of all candidates who sat the examination and factor same into the national education planning template.”

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has made a new disclosure.

The board disclosed the date candidates, who registered for the 2023 optional mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, scheduled for March 30th March, should print their notification slips.

JAMB said candidates could print their Notification Slips from March 23rd.

Fabian Benjamin, the head of JAMB’s Public Affairs and Protocol, said the date was sacrosanct.

A statement by Benjamin reads partly: “All candidates for the Mock-UTME are to visit https://www.jamb.gov.ng., CLICK on 2023 Mock-UTME on the MENU button to print their slips after inputting their Registration Number.

“This directive is only applicable to those candidates who had indicated interest to take the mock examination.

“The Notification Slip would contain the Candidates’ Registration Number, Venue, Date, and Time of the Examination to enable them to easily locate their centres before the examination.”

JAMB urged prospective candidates to be at their centres one hour before the examination for biometric verification.

The Board also reiterated its zero tolerance for examination malpractice.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has made a new announcement.

JAMB, on Monday announced that it had resumed the 2023 Direct Entry registration nationwide.

The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who made this known at a press briefing on Monday in Abuja, said that the DE registration would come to a close on April 28, 2023.

While lamenting the high level of forgery of A Level certificates used for the registration, Oloyede said the board had introduced new guidelines to check such acts.

He said, “You will recall that the board commenced the 2023 Direct Entry registration on Monday, 20th February, 2023, but had to immediately suspend it following the discovery of the plethora of devices and machinations to circumvent and compromise the standard of A’ Level qualifications required from DE candidates.

“Recall that recent joint operations of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on DE qualifications brought to light some of these unsavoury and nefarious activities.

“Bayero University, Kano  has also consistently brought to the fore the high rate of forgery of A’ Level qualifications for DE.

For instance, it was discovered that in previous years, some candidates used unacceptable and forged A’ level certificates/qualifications to register for Direct Entry and eventually got admitted. For example, out of 148 candidates verified by BUK, only six were found to be genuine. By implication, 142 of the results were forged.

“The Board, concerned stakeholders and institutions are working assiduously to detect such and the ones already found are being dealt with according to the provisions of the law.”

Speaking further, Oloyede said the Board would only  accept 13 qualifications/certificates for the 2023 Direct Entry registration, which include; first degree, university diploma, Higher National Diploma, Ordinary National Diploma /National Diploma and Nigeria Certificate in Education.

Others are Interim Joint Matriculation Board A’ Level, Joint Universities Preliminary Examination Board A’ Level,

NABTEB Advanced National Business Certificate, NABTEB Advanced National Technical Certificate,  NABTEB GCE-A’ Level (2015 – 2021), Higher Islamic Studies Certificate by NBAIS, International Baccalaureate  and the  National Registered Nurse /National Registered Midwife.

He, however, said that the 127 candidates who had earlier registered for the 2023 DE before the exercise was suspended would be requested to return to the registration centres and update their application.

The JAMB boss also revealed that the data bank put in place to address challenges associated with the A’ Level qualifications had now been renamed as ‘Nigeria Post-secondary Education Data System’.

On the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Oloyede said JAMB had introduced new measures in the conduct of the exam and called for understanding.

“The Board has instituted some measures which are to be deployed during the 2023 UTME exercise. Despite the fact that the innovations have been tested and certified, yet it is not unlikely that some hiccups might spring up when the new technology is deployed live and nationwide. We therefore solicit your support and understanding as we promptly address any unforeseen circumstances.

“One major feature of the new dispensation is that no examination would be allowed to take place after one hour of its scheduled start time because the Board has discovered that some of the problems reported at the centres are contrived to delay the commencement of a session in some centres with a view to securing undue advantage for the delayed candidates.

“Consequently, any session that, for whatever reason(s), could not take off within one hour of its schedule is automatically rescheduled. When such occurs, affected candidates are expected to file out of the examination hall into the waiting hall and await the new scheduled time and place which most likely would be the same or following day,” he said.

The 2023 Mock-UTME scheduled for Thursday, March 16, 2023, has been postponed to Thursday, March 30, 2023.

The shift in date is partly owing to the change in the date for the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 11, 2023, but now moved to March 18, 2023, the examination board said in a statement on Monday afternoon.

“Candidates, who registered early and indicated their willingness to take the Mock-UTME, would be notified as to when to print their Mock-UTME notification slip, which would contain their centres and other details”.

The mock UTME is an optional examination introduced by the JAMB to provide an opportunity for candidates to have hands-on experience with the system as well as afford the board an opportunity to ascertain its readiness and that of its partners for the main UTME, which is scheduled to hold between April 29 to May 12, 2023.

“The Board also wants to use this opportunity to announce that this year’s UTME would witness some groundbreaking innovations aimed at addressing observed infractions and centre failures.

“For instance, in the new regime, if there is a delay of up to one hour before the commencement of a particular session, that session stands cancelled and would be rescheduled along with the candidates.

“By the same token, no examination can be started one hour after the scheduled commencement time. The session will be scheduled for any vacant or available slot,” JAMB said in the statement.

Meanwhile, no fewer than 168,748 registered for the 2023 mock UTME out of the over 1.5 million prospective candidates for this year’s UTME according to official statistics provided by JAMB.

According to the official breakdown, a total of 2,200 students will sit for the mock in Abia state; Adamawa, 1,264; Akwa-Ibom, 3,981; Anambra, 6,104; Bauchi 1,572; Bayelsa 847; Benue 1,349; Borno 1,234; Cross-Rivers 1,750; Delta 7,409; Ebonyi 1,499; Edo 4,416; Ekiti 3,273; Enugu 4,443; FCT 14,863; Gombe 723; Imo 3,987; Jigawa 261; Kaduna 6,850; Kano 3,072; Katsina 1,088; Kebbi 697; Kogi 1,924; Kwara 6,544; Lagos 28,340; Nasarawa 3,332; Niger 2,491; Ogun 10,922; Ondo 4,743; Osun 7,131; Oyo 14,732.

Others are Plateau with 3,284; Rivers 9,469; Sokoto 967; Taraba 622; Yobe 1,047 and Zamfara with 318 candidates.