JAMB changes the date for UTME 2023.

The start of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exams has been rescheduled, according to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

In a statement released in Abuja on Sunday and signed by Dr. Fabian Benjamin, the board made this disclosure.

According to Benjamin, the UTME, which was originally planned to begin on April 29, will now begin on April 25, 2023.

He added that the board’s rescheduled mock-UTME would take place on April 18, 2023.

”JAMB had earlier conducted its 2023 Mock-UTME on Thursday,  March 30, in 725 centres across the country.

”However, the exercise ran into some technical hitches in some centres, thereby denying some candidates the opportunity to sit for  the examination.

”The board’s mock examination was designed for the purpose of testing its preparedness and that of its partners for the UTME as well as give prospective candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the CBT test environment.

”It is, therefore, in order to give those candidates, who were unable to sit for the examination owing to no fault of theirs, the opportunity to take the examination that the mock examination had been rescheduled to hold on Tuesday, April 18,” he said.

He explained that candidates who were present and screened for the test but were unable to sit for it had a new opportunity to retake the practice test on April 18.

Hence, Benjamin announced that the results of the candidates who passed the mock exam on March 30 had been made public.

He added that the board has moved up the administration of the 2023 UTME, which was formerly planned to take place from Saturday, April 29, to Tuesday, April 25.

He claimed the change in the UTME’s date was made to make room for some other significant and important national duties.

”By so doing, the board hopes that no citizen will be denied the opportunity of exercising their civic responsibilities.

”It should be noted that the board does not have the liberty of shifting forward its examination as other public examinations are billed to commence their exercises in the early part of May 2023.

“Yet another factor is the need to accommodate those institutions with stable academic calendar to resume as scheduled,” he added.

He said that in order to ensure that its candidates received the best, the board would continue to collaborate with pertinent governmental agencies.

According to him, the board asked for everyone’s understanding while it carried out its crucial job.