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The Glasshouse Report

Sunday 20 March 2016

Candidates That Had System Failure And Those That Missed The Exam Will Retake It - JAMB

The Registrar Joint Admissions and Matriculation

Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde has stated

that candidates who missed their examination

because they were relocated will be given

another opportunity to sit for the examination.

Also candidates who had system failure during

the examination would retake it, once it is

proven by the board that their complaints are

genuine.

On the issue of conflicting results, Prof. Dibu

said, "Let me use this opportunity to offer

explanation on the issue of the much-publicized

two results. The process of our marking involves

transformation and other qualitative

programming.

In the process of these configurations, we had a

little challenge which we quickly corrected and

ensured that this never happened in subsequent

results. This challenge was only associated with

the candidates that sat for this examination on

Saturday, 27, and some candidates of Monday,

29 February, 2016."

He also disclosed that out of the 1,546,633

candidates that sat for the 2016 UTME, 145, 704

had issues of multiple results which have been

resolved by the board.

He however stated that results of Uromi

approved UTME Centre in Edo State, were being

withheld as a result of massive malpractice and

invasion of the centre by armed hoodlums.

He blamed the technical hitches experienced in

some of the centres on the operators of the

centers as some of them hired equipment just to

pass the accreditation process only to be found

wanting on the examination day.

He further stated that reverting to Pencil-Paper

Test as directed by the House of

Representatives will invariably amount to taking

one step forward and two steps backwards.

"Even the physically challenged are taking the

CBT examination. One of the blind candidates

scored 286, so why should others complain? He

queried.

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