The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it
will no longer conduct mop-up examinations for candidates for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) who are not bio-metrically verified.
The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin from the
office of the Registrar on Monday in Abuja.
It said the move was to further strengthen the noose around
examination malpractice.
“The board has decided that the era whereby some candidates
will present themselves at the examination venue and claim difficulty to be
biometrically verified and expect the system to allow them to sit for the
examination is gone for good.
“It will be recalled that the board, out of its magnanimity
has allowed such candidates to be rescheduled for the mop-up UTME introduced in
2017.
“However, the board has of late, realised the futility of
such an arrangement after assessing the process and its impact on the entire
examination value chain.
“Consequently, the management of the board has regrettably
resolved that all candidates must be verified to sit for their examination as
there will be no more mop-ups UTME for whatever reason.
“To cater for the few that may have genuine cases of
inability to be captured, such candidates are to clearly indicate such
difficulty from the point of registration.
“This is so that they can be assigned to a centre situated
within the National headquarters of the board for close monitoring,” it said.
The bulletin noted that the measure was not only to sanitise
the examination process but also to ensure that the hard-earned reputation of
the board was not impugned.
JAMB said the decision emanated from the management’s
rigorous review of the 2022 UTME exercise with the need to close all loopholes
noticed during the examination.
“Examination malpractice remained one of the major obstacles
faced by all public examination bodies globally, hence, the need for it to
consistently take steps to confront the monster.
“No candidate of the UTME will be allowed to sit for its
examination without first being biometrically verified. All 10 fingers of the
candidate must be captured at the point of registration.
“To combat the menace of examination malpractice, the board
has taken full advantage of technology by introducing, among others, biometric
capturing of a candidate’s 10 fingers during UTME registration.
“This is to ensure that there is a convincing match between
the fingerprints captured and those presented by the candidate at the
examination venue,” it said.
The board added that any scenario other than the above was
an invitation to examination security breach.
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