By Gloria Ikibah
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that 24,535 candidates who sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been given another opportunity to retake the examination.
According to JAMB, the decision to reschedule the candidates was prompted by substantial non-compliance with its standards in the affected examination centres.
This was contained in a statement by the Spokespersonof the Board, Dr. Fabian Benjamin on Sunday in Abuja.
The statement reads: “The board has painstakingly analysed the process and conduct of the 2024 UTME in some centres where there are strong proofs of substantial non-compliance with the board’s standards.
“Consequently, 24,535 candidates have been rescheduled to retake the examination in their chosen examination towns on Saturday, June 22, 2024.
“Meanwhile, 3,921 outstanding 2024 UTME results that had been cleared have now been released.
“Therefore, concerned candidates are urged to check their results from Saturday, June 1, 2024 by sending RESULT to 55019 or 66019 to ascertain their status as those cleared would have their results while those rescheduled would be told that they had been rescheduled.
“The rescheduled candidates are to print their supplementary Examination Notification Slip from Tuesday, June 4, 2024 to ascertain their designated examination centres.
“This release brings the total results released to 1,883,350.”
The statement added: “The rescheduled examination, which is taking place on Saturday, June 22, 2024, two weeks from now, is to give the affected candidates adequate time to prepare for the exercise.
“This notice does not concern candidates whose results have been released.
“Candidates with prima facie case(s) of examination misconduct would be further interrogated to establish their culpability after which appropriate measures would be taken on them and announced.”