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Prof Oloyede<\/p>\n
By Publisher<\/p>\n
Kindly share:<\/p>\n
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will conduct additional mop-up examinations for candidates who missed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).<\/p>\n
JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, announced the decision on Wednesday in Abuja at a meeting with key stakeholders to address the challenges encountered during the 2025 UTME.<\/p>\n
Oloyede said that the board would accommodate the estimated 5.6 per cent of candidates who missed the examination by organising a special mop-up exercise.<\/p>\n
He said that the board had extended the opportunity to all the affected candidates, regardless of the reasons for their absence.<\/p>\n
\u201cNormally, we hold one mop-up nationwide for those with one issue or the other.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut this time, we are creating a new mop-up. Even those who missed the earlier examination due to absence, we will extend this opportunity to them.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not that we are doing something extraordinary; in class, you make up an examination when students miss it for one reason or the other; we just don\u2019t allow abuse of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we will allow all the candidates who missed the main examination for any reason to take part in this mop-up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Oloyede criticised some public commentators who misunderstood and misrepresented the role of UTME, while clarifying that UTME was a placement test and not an achievement test.<\/p>\n
According to him, the purpose of the examination is to rank candidates for available spaces in institutions and not to measure intelligence or overall academic potential.<\/p>\n
The registrar further stated that a high UTME score was not the sole determinant of admission, adding that combined performance, including post-UTME scores and school assessments, could significantly affect a candidate\u2019s ranking.<\/p>\n
While acknowledging the emotional strain experienced while announcing the UTME results, he noted that this was not indicative of an institutional weakness.<\/p>\n
He expressed JAMB\u2019s commitment to resolving issues affecting the examination process, even as he rejected comments suggesting that the administrative failure was due to incompetence or ethnic bias.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to say this clearly, particularly because I accepted responsibility, not because I do not know how to do the work.<\/p>\n
\u201cI say it for the fourth time that no conspiracy theory is relevant to this case.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething happened, like people who have been doing something well for years, and something just went wrong. That I should now throw them under the bus? No,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Oloyede, who frowned at those exploiting difficulties to promote ethnic or conspiracy-driven narratives, urged stakeholders to stop ethnic profiling in the education sector.<\/p>\n
According to him, many of the criticisms of JAMB\u2019s operations are rooted in ignorance.<\/p>\n
The registrar, however, commended his team\u2019s efforts, while also appreciating the resilience shown by candidates, many of whom, he said, had continued their exams, notwithstanding the various challenges. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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