The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Saturday
said it would henceforth ensure the resolution of all exam issues
before releasing results of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME), to avoid cancellation.
JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Mr Fabian Benjamin, said this
in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT,
while speaking on the outcome of the mop-up examination
results.
He disclosed that the results of supplementary examination
conducted by the Board on July 1 in 170 centres for 85, 000
candidates across the country had been released.
He explained that the result was delayed to ascertain there were
no hitches all the centres that the supplementary exam was
conducted.
“The results had been ready as usual; we release results two
hours after examination; this delay was because we wanted to take
our time to clear all issues.
“This is also to ensure that all the CCTV at centres we
conducted mop-up examinations were adequately fixed; we do not want
situation where we release results before thinking of cancelling
it.
“What we want to be doing now as we have started with this
mop-up examination, and will be doing in 2018, is to ensure all
issues are resolved before releasing results.
“It is our view that there is no need rushing to release
results; it is better to do whatever is supposed to have been done,
before we release the results,” he said.
He urged candidates yet to receive their supplementary
examination results, not to panic, saying that no result from the
mop-up examination was outstanding.
He said that the breakdown of the 2017 UTME result could not be
published at the moment since the Board was yet to conduct exam for
foreign candidates.
“We are still writing exam and it will be unfair to publish the
whole results when people are still writing.
“We just rolled out forms for foreign centres, so once we finish
that, which is not going to take long, we will do the analysis and
come to a conclusion,” Benjamin said.
NAN reports that 85, 000 candidates of the 1.7 million enrolled
for the 2017 UTME had registered late for the exam as a result of
some challenges.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Saturday
said it would henceforth ensure the resolution of all exam issues
before releasing results of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME), to avoid cancellation.
JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Mr Fabian Benjamin, said this
in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, FCT,
while speaking on the outcome of the mop-up examination
results.
He disclosed that the results of supplementary examination
conducted by the Board on July 1 in 170 centres for 85, 000
candidates across the country had been released.
He explained that the result was delayed to ascertain there were
no hitches all the centres that the supplementary exam was
conducted.
“The results had been ready as usual; we release results two
hours after examination; this delay was because we wanted to take
our time to clear all issues.
“This is also to ensure that all the CCTV at centres we
conducted mop-up examinations were adequately fixed; we do not want
situation where we release results before thinking of cancelling
it.
“What we want to be doing now as we have started with this
mop-up examination, and will be doing in 2018, is to ensure all
issues are resolved before releasing results.
“It is our view that there is no need rushing to release
results; it is better to do whatever is supposed to have been done,
before we release the results,” he said.
He urged candidates yet to receive their supplementary
examination results, not to panic, saying that no result from the
mop-up examination was outstanding.
He said that the breakdown of the 2017 UTME result could not be
published at the moment since the Board was yet to conduct exam for
foreign candidates.
“We are still writing exam and it will be unfair to publish the
whole results when people are still writing.
“We just rolled out forms for foreign centres, so once we finish
that, which is not going to take long, we will do the analysis and
come to a conclusion,” Benjamin said.
NAN reports that 85, 000 candidates of the 1.7 million enrolled
for the 2017 UTME had registered late for the exam as a result of
some challenges.
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