The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed a new date for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) which was made known in a statement issued on Sunday by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol. The statement disclosed that the 2023 UTME would commence on April 25 and end on May 2 while its rescheduled mock would hold on April 18, 2023.
The statement reads, “It would be recalled that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on Thursday, March 30, 2023, in 725 centres across the country. However, the exercise ran into some technical hitches in some centres, thereby denying some candidates the opportunity to sit the examination.
“The Board’s mock examination was designed for the purpose of testing its preparedness and that of its partners for the UTME as well as give prospective candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the CBT test environment.
“It is therefore, in order to give those candidates, who were unable to sit the examination owing to no fault of theirs, the opportunity to take the examination that the mock examination has been rescheduled to hold on Tuesday, 18th April 2023.
“Similarly, candidates who were present and screened for the examination but could not sit the examination have been rescheduled to retake the mock examination on Tuesday, 18th April 2023.
“In the meantime, the results of the candidates who successfully took the mock examination on 30th March 2023 have been released.
“Also, the Board has brought forward the conduct of its 2023 UTME which was earlier scheduled to hold from Saturday, 29th April 2023 to Tuesday, 25th April to Tuesday, 2nd May 2023.
“The adjustment in the date of the UTME is to accommodate some other major and critical national assignments. By so doing, the Board hopes that no citizen would be denied the opportunity of exercising their civic responsibilities.”
