Day 2: 947,000 Students Sit For UTME – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) say about 947,000 candidates have so far sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination within the last two days.

The head of public affairs of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin made this known after monitoring the ongoing UTME alongside the Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede and others, on Thursday in Abuja.

Fabian, who assured that everyone registered for the exam would be given the opportunity to take part in the exercise, said the Board has resolved the technical hitches that were experienced on the first of day the UTME in some centres across the country

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He said, “This is the best exam we have had over a period of time, but I know many will like to contest that because of what happened on Tuesday, but  I know if you have been in the system and be following our exams, you will know that the first day is always turbulent, as we progress we stabilise and continue the exercise.

“And one assurance we want to give Nigerians is that every candidate that has registered for this examination, he or she will certainly be given the opportunity to take the examination.

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“On the first day, there were candidates who were unable to sit for the examination because of technical issues and we have rescheduled those candidates, some of them are taking the exam as we speak and some will also take tomorrow.

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