JAMB Releases 2023 Rescheduled Mock-UTME Results

By Iyojo Ameh

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of the results of all candidates, who sat for the rescheduled Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

Recall that the mock examination was introduced by the Board to test the preparedness of its facilities as well as give candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) environment.

It is also to be noted that the Board had earlier conducted the mock examination on Thursday, March 30, 2023.

However, some candidates could not sit this earlier mock examination on account of some technical challenges occasioned by some new features being trialled by the Board. It was these set of candidates, who sat the rescheduled examination in 387 centres across the country on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

In a press release to announce the release, Head, Public Affairs and protocol, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, stated that the Board would not shy away from taking the much-needed steps aimed at transforming the conduct of public examinations in Nigeria.

“With the successful conduct of the mock examination, it became crystal clear that all the challenges encountered which had led to the rescheduled mock examination were necessary experiences that would serve to make the system even better as the Board has now consolidated the software and is ready to give Nigerians the best,” he said.

The statement however stated that the prompt release of results for the mock examination would not be replicated during the upcoming UTME scheduled to commence from 25th April, 2023.

It added that the results of the UTME would not be released piecemeal but holistically as the entire results of the entire eight-day exercise would be collated before they would be released to candidates.

“It is to be noted that the Board embarked on the screening of results to ensure that any UTME results obtained by any candidate is not a product of infractions and other unwholesome practices. This measure ensures that the Board would not have to release any particular result and then recall same on account of established case of malpractice.

“In the same vein, assessing the entire results enables the Board to obtain the overall standard deviation and the mean of the performance of all the candidates who sat the examination. By doing this, the Board is able to aggregate the general performance of all candidates who sat the examination and factor same into the national education planning template,” the statement said.