The Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, has rescheduled all candidates, who were unable to access their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations on Tuesday, due technical glitches.
The board made the announcement after a management meeting on Tuesday.
As part of the announcement, candidates, who were not able to sit the examination on account of technical lapses are to required print a new examination notification early tomorrow morning, Wednesday, 26th April, 2023, to know their new exam date.
The City Gazette gathered that about 100 centres out of the 708 centres that registered for the 2023 UTME exercise in the country, experienced technical problems, preventing candidates from taking their papers successfully.
The board, in the statement said it would rigorously the candidates in line with global standard to deliver quality assessment and thereby apologised for any inconveniences experienced by candidates and their parents.
It noted that the technical issues experienced were as a result of some new technical changes introduced by the Board to guard against examination malpractices that have become a tradition in the country.
The Board, therefore, expressed the resolve of its technical department doing everything possible to ensure that subsequent examinations are seamless.
While giving assurance that no candidate would be deprived of the right of taking his/her examination, the board stressed that any candidate that missed his or her papers on account of technical lapses would surely be rescheduled.