The Joint Admission Matriculation Board, (JAMB) has apologized to the parents and candidates of the 2023 JAMB UTME for the hitches they experienced during the 2023 Mock. This apology was conveyed in a press release signed by the Board’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Benjamin Febian. The press release reads: JAMB, on Thursday, 30th March, 2023, conducted the 2023 Mock-UTME in 725 centres across the nation. As previously anticipated, the exercise witnessed some hitches in a few centres with some candidates unable to sit the examination.
These candidates will be rescheduled to sit the examination at a date to be announced later at no cost to them. The Board would look at all issues thrown up by the mock exercise and act accordingly for a better and enhanced exercise. The introduction of the Mock-UTME by JAMB was aimed at providing the Board with the opportunity to assess innovations that would be used for the main examination as well as allow candidates to have hands-on experiences in the CBT environment. The exercise, which was introduced over six years ago, has availed the Board a unique opportunity to trial innovations that have significantly improved the Board’s ability to deliver world-class assessment exercises.
It would be recalled that before the conduct of the 2023 exercise, the Board had, in a statement, disclosed that it would be introducing some new measures that had never been used before and would want to use the opportunity of the mock exercise to assess their functionality. The Board would want to use this opportunity to apologize to all candidates for any inconvenience they might have experienced on account of this. This is part of a development process aimed at enhancing the Board’s efforts at improving the quality, security and sanctity of its services and as well as using the same to herald the next phase of its transformational agenda.