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The joint commission for admission and enrollment (Jamb) states that it will lead a further examination of purposes for candidates who have lost the unified tertiary registration examination of 2025 (UTME).
Chancellor Jamb, Prof. IS-HAQ Oloyede, made this known in a meeting with the main parties interested to face the challenges found during the Utme of 2025 in Abuja on Wednesday 21 May.
Oloyede said Jamb will host 5.6 percent estimated of candidates who have lost the exam, organizing a special purposes of purposes.
He said that the Council has extended the opportunity for all affected candidates, regardless of the reasons for their absence.
Oloyede said: “Normally, we hold a national mop-up for those with one problem or another.
“This time, we are creating a new moped. Even those who have lost the previous exam because of the absence, we will extend this opportunity to them.
“It is not that we are doing something extraordinary; in the classroom, it invents an exam when the students lose it for one reason or another; we simply do not allow ourselves abuse.
“So we will allow all the candidates who have lost the main exam for any reason to take part in this mop-up.”
Oloyede has criticized some public commentators who have misunderstood and misrepresented the role of Utme, observing that Utme is a placement test and not a successful test.
According to him, the purpose of the exam is to classify the candidates for the spaces available in institutions and not to measure intelligence or overall academic potential.
Jamb’s boss also said that the high UTME score was not the only decisive of admission, adding that the combined performance, including post-autheme scores and school assessments, could significantly affect a candidate’s ranking.
He expressed Jamb’s commitment to solve the problems that affect the examination process, even if he rejected the comments that suggest that the administrative failure was due to incompetence or ethnic distortion.
Oloyede said: “I want to say it clearly, in particular because I accepted responsibility, not because I don’t know how to do the job.
“I say for the fourth time that no conspiracy theory is relevant for this case.
“Something happened; like the people who have done something good for years and something has gone wrong. What now should I throw them under the bus? No.”
Oloyede, who turned on for those difficulties in exploiting ethnic narratives or guided by conspiracy, urged the parties interested in stopping ethnic profiling in the education sector.
