The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has
clarified its position on potential candidates who may be awaiting results,
saying that they could apply for the 2017 Universities Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME), reports ITRealms.
JAMB spokesman, Dr. Fabian Benjamin made this clarification in
Abuja on Thursday, saying that candidates awaiting results are eligible to
register and sit for UTME, stressing that any candidate who fails to upload
their result between May and August, would not be confirmed to gain admission
into any tertiary institution.
He also said, this would enable JAMB grant admission to only
qualified candidates who are ready to advance their educational pursuit in
tertiary institutions, conserve resources and equally provide credible data.
“Nigerians are still not clear whether candidates with
awaiting results will write our exams or not. Today, we want to make it categorically
clear that candidates with awaiting results are eligible to register and sit
for our examinations. However, the board will not confirm any admission for any
candidate with awaiting result,” he said.
In addition, Benjamin said, all candidates who are desirous
of tertiary education are to upload their O’ Level result on JAMB site.
“We don’t want to be giving admissions to candidates that
are not qualified to be admitted. It has been discovered over time that most of
the times when these candidates are admitted, they don’t meet the requirements,”
he said.
Potential candidates, the spokesman pointed out, have from
May up to August to upload their results.
“At the point of admission we would have sieved our records
and any candidate who has not uploaded his or her result at that point, is not
eligible for admission,” he said.
“We have a good number of candidates who have written their
exams in years past and they have their results ready waiting for this process,
we will factor those ones and the few ones that will get their results before
August. We are not working for those that will be writing their exams. But if
by chance you write your O’ Level examinations and JAMB this year and your result
is ready, good for you.”
He further said that candidates, who are not computer
literate, have a choice of applying for a UTME mock examination at a fee of
N700,00 nationwide.
Benjamin explained that the UTME mock examination was
optional and aimed at allowing students have a feel of the Computer Based Test
(CBT), especially those ignorant of the CBT process.
Uj. N. Dominic and Uboshe Uboshe/GEE
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