JAMB announces new date for 2023 UTME
… to hold resheduled mock-UTME April 18
By Uji A. Iliyasu
Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced new date for the revised 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and the rescheduled Mock-UTME.
In a statement by JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, Sunday, the rescheduled mock examination will now hold on April18, 2023, while the Board has brought forward the conduct of its 2023 UTME, which was earlier scheduled to hold on April 29 to April 25, 2023.
“It would be recalled that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on Thursday, 30th March, 2023, in 725 centres across the country. However, the exercise ran into some technical hitches in some centres thereby denying some candidates the opportunity to sit the examination.
“The Board’s mock examination was designed for the purpose of testing its preparedness and that of its partners for the UTME as well as give prospective candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the CBT test environment.
“It is, therefore, in order to give those candidates, who were unable to sit the examination owing to no fault of theirs, the opportunity to take the examination that the mock examination had been rescheduled to hold on Tuesday, 18th April, 2023.
“Similarly, candidates who were present and screened for the examination but could not sit the examination have been rescheduled to retake the mock examination on Tuesday, 18th April, 2023,” Fabian said.
In the meantime, the result of the candidates who successfully took the mock examination on March 30, 2023, has been released, the statement revealed.
Dr Benjamin said the adjustment in the date of the UTME is to accommodate some other major and critical national assignments.
“By so doing, the Board hopes that no citizen would be denied the opportunity of exercising their civic responsibilities.
“It should be noted that the Board does not have the liberty of shifting forward its examination as other public examinations are billed to commence their exercises in the early part of May, 2023. Yet another factor is the need to accommodate those institutions with stable academic calendar to resume as scheduled.”
He therefore, appealed to stakeholders to appreciate the board’s preparedness to continue to partner with relevant agencies of government to ensure that its candidates get the best they deserve.
