The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday warned candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and other stakeholders to be wary of activities of fraudsters who are making false claims of errors in the scoring of candidates.
In a statement by its Director of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, obtained by nirafinder the board stated: “the UTME is a computer-based test that is scored electronically with no human mediation whatsoever.”
Per Benjamin, JAMB has no plans to conduct another UTME for the 2022 session.
JAMB Opens Up On Alleged Plans To Conduct Fresh UTME
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday warned candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and other stakeholders to be wary of activities of fraudsters who are making false claims of errors in the scoring of candidates.
In a statement by its Director of Public Relations, Fabian Benjamin, obtained by Newsbreak, the board stated: “the UTME is a computer-based test that is scored electronically with no human mediation whatsoever.”
Per Benjamin, JAMB has no plans to conduct another UTME for the 2022 session.
He added: “Consequently, the unfounded rumours making the rounds are nothing but the products of the deceitful brains of the masterminds of these baseless inputations.
Hence, the board reiterates that there is no room for errors in its electronic scoring system, nor does it plan to “This clarification became necessary following reports of a purported rescheduling of the UTME from a section of the social media citing phantom errors in the computer scoring system and a purported apology from JAMB to the effect that another UTME would be organised.