JAMB Reschedules 18,000 Candidates For Mop-Up UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has rescheduled examination for greater than 18,000 candidates who skilled biometric verification challenges and those that genuinely missed the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on account of a conflict with this yr’s Nationwide Enterprise and Technical Examinations Board examination.

The mop-up UTME is scheduled for Friday, August 6, 2021, in some chosen areas throughout the nation.

JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, made this recognized in an announcement on Thursday, titled, ‘Mop-Up UTME Holds Friday, sixth August, 2021…JAMB’.

The assertion learn, “Following detailed investigation and cautious evaluation of the highly-successful 2021 UTME, and with due session (leading to gracious concession) with the Nationwide Examination Council in regards to the timetable of the council’s ongoing SSCE, JAMB has scheduled a Mop-up UTME for Friday, sixth August, 2021, in some chosen areas throughout the nation.

“About 18,000 candidates slated for the examination are being notified by way of each textual content messages on their designated telephone numbers and their JAMB profiles. As well as, the candidate can examine utilizing their registration quantity on http://www.jamb.gov.ng/2021mopup.

“For the avoidance of doubt, no candidate whose outcome has been duly launched shall be rescheduled for one more examination.”

“The rescheduled candidates are within the following classes:

“Candidates who couldn’t be initially scheduled for examination owing to their incapability to well timed procure and provide their necessary NINs or profile codes till after the shut of the registration train and, subsequently, needed to buy Financial institution Drafts (as in opposition to the same old merchandising of PINs) after the scheduled interval for the examination and have been later registered.

“Few candidates who encountered peculiar biometric verification drawback, or who failed biometric verification on the examination date (and have been recaptured) however weren’t allowed to partake within the examination. (Ample screening preparations have been made to reverify such claims and any candidate discovered to be concerned in any type of impersonation shall be recognized for prosecution).

“Candidates who have been unable to take a seat for the UTME owing to the conflict of timetables of the UTME and the then ongoing NABTEB examinations and whose particulars have been verified and equipped on to JAMB by NABTEB, and

“Candidates who’ve been ascertained by JAMB to have skilled real rescheduling/technical issues as was the case in 30 of the 760 centres used for the examination.

“The rescheduled candidates are to print contemporary examination notification slips containing the venue and time of the examination. The slips are to be printed from the JAMB web site https://www.jamb.gov.ng utilizing the candidates’ registration quantity from Sunday, 1st August, 2021.

“The Board strongly advises candidates to keep away from supplying their important info together with registration quantity to fraudsters who abound particularly in cybercafe(s), tutorial centres bobbing up virtually all over the place within the nation on account of the illicit actions of examination syndicates. CBT centres authorized by JAMB that are persistently monitored are comparatively extra secured for printing examination notification slips by candidates who can’t print such on their very own.”