The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
said on Saturday that there would be no rescheduling of
examination for candidates who reported late for the
supplementary examination.
Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, said this while reacting
to complaints by candidates sitting for the mop-up
examination at the board’s computer-based centre (CBT)
in Bwari, FCT.
Oloyede, who led some staff members on the supervision
of the exercise, said the exam was a supplementary
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) being
conducted in 170 centres across the country.
He said 85, 000 candidates slated for the mop-up exam
were notified through text messages and warned those
who came late that the board would not reschedule the
exam.
“There is nothing you can do … we placed adverts in
newspapers, sent e-mails and text messages and if you
did not get it, it means that you were not invited for the
exam.
“A bulk Short Message Service (SMS) was equally sent to
your telephone numbers that you provided during the
registration.
“We will not reschedule the exam for people who came
late,” Oloyede said.
On complaints about system failure, Oloyede explained
that the computers had been programmed to work under
a specific time frame and urged candidates to engage the
computers regularly to avoid disruption.
According to him, if a candidate sits down in the exam
hall doing nothing, the computer is likely to shut down
because there is a time frame for its usage.
“If you do not use it, it will go off. When you sit and you
are not doing anything within that time frame, we also
monitor from our system to ensure you that candidates
are not cheating.”
NAN reports that the 85, 000 candidates of the 1.7
million enrolled for the 2017 UTME had registered late for
the exam and also had some challenges with the exam.
The mop-up examination which held in two sessions
lasted for two hours from 7.00 a.m. to 9.00 a.m.
TheCable
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