The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has scheduled a Mop-up UTME for Friday, August 6, 2021, in some selected locations across the nation.
A statement by JAMB head of media, Fabian Benjamin said the decision followed a detailed investigation and careful analysis of 2021 UTME, and with due consultation with the National Examination Council, NECO, concerning the timetable of the council’s ongoing SSCE.
JAMB said About 18,000 candidates slated for the examination are being notified through both text messages on their designated phone numbers and their JAMB profiles while urging the candidates to check their registration number on the JAMB website/2021mopup.
For the avoidance of doubt, JAMB noted that no candidate whose result has been duly released will be rescheduled for another examination contrary to the sponsored fake news being circulated on a section of both social and traditional media.
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The statement added that the rescheduled candidates are in the following categories:
One, Candidates who could not be initially scheduled for examination owing to In their inability to timely procure and supply their mandatory NINs or profile codes until after the close of the registration exercise and, therefore, had to purchase Bank Drafts, as against the usual vending of PINs, after the scheduled period for the examination, and were later registered.
Two, Few candidates who encountered peculiar biometric verification problems, or who failed biometric verification on the examination date and were recaptured but were not allowed to partake in the examination.
Three, Candidates who were unable to sit for the UTME owing to the clash of timetables of the UTME and the then ongoing NABTEB examinations and whose particulars have been verified and supplied directly to JAMB by NABTEB, and Four, Candidates who have been ascertained by JAMB to have experienced genuine rescheduling or technical problems as was the case in 30 of the 760 centers used for the examination.
JAMB encourages the rescheduled candidates to print fresh examination notification slips containing the venue and time of the examination from its website, using the candidates’ registration number from Sunday, August GB GB 1, 2021.
Editor: Ena Agbanoma
