JAMB Appeals for Understanding of UTME Challenges

The Registrar Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has appealed to the members of the public to understand on difficulty experienced when candidates were sitting for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

This was the response of Professor Oloyede while speaking to the media after monitoring the exam in Kogo-Bwari in Abuja on April 19, 2024, when the exam commenced.

Although the Registrar disclosed that so far the conduct of the exam was smooth, a centre experienced difficulty at the time of filing this report.

Professor Oloyede disclosed that he still expected that about 10 percent of the centres would encounter one difficulty or the other, “because we know the level of development in different parts of the country.

Pleading, he stated, “We appeal to the public to understand. Some centres will fail. I have heard only one centre that has failed today.”

“We are not encouraging this but when it happens, please do not disrupt others. It is important to know that when a session fails because of a problem, you cannot bring those candidates to do session two, they will have to step aside, and headquarters will have to be contacted.

“The earliest time they can be scheduled will be after 4:30 p.m. so that those slated for sessions two and three can write, and these candidates can now write for session four, and in some cases, they can even be scheduled for the following day,” said the Registrar.

The 2024 UTME continues until May 29, 2024.

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