On Saturday, September 24, 2022, 67 candidates will take a supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
JAMB explained that the examination is “for 67 candidates who had registered for the 2022 UTME, but who could neither sit the examination nor take the just-concluded Mop-Up UTME owing to one challenge or another, to take their examination at specially-designated centres.”
This was said in a statement released on Monday morning by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Affairs and Protocol at JAMB.
The candidates who had biometric issues were granted the chance to take a mop-up exam once the Board assessed the entire exercise following the 2022 UTME.
The Board further declared that because the administration of a mop-up examination is a temporary fix, it would not be permitted to become a regular part of its calendar.
In order to be given special consideration and assigned to centers within its National Headquarters, Abuja, for close monitoring, any candidate presenting any peculiar challenges would have to indicate or declare such peculiarities at the point of registration. This is because the Board had stopped holding mop-up examinations.
“However, in spite of the discovery of series of suspicious challenges presented by some candidates, the Board has, on account of its avowed commitment to equity and fairness, scheduled another set of 67 candidates to sit the examination at designated centres, under close scrutiny of the Board,” he said.
The statement added, “This decision to give these set of candidates this unusual opportunity is to ensure that no single innocent candidate is punished unjustly.
“These 67 candidates are, therefore, urged to print their supplementary examination notification slips from Monday, 19th September, 2022, to know the centres where they would be sitting the examination.”
