By Fatima Zahra Muhammad
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of all candidates, who sat for the rescheduled mock UTME on April 18.
This is contained in a statement by the Head of Public Affairs and protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin on Wednesday.
Recall that the mock examination was introduced by the Board to test the preparedness of its facilities as well as give candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) environment.
Recall that some candidates could not sit for the mock exams earlier conducted on Thursday, 30th March, 2023 due to some technical challenges occasioned by some new features being tried by the Board.
The board therefore rescheduled the mock exams for these candidates in 387 centres across the country.
“With the successful conduct of the mock examination, it became crystal clear that all the challenges encountered which had led to the rescheduled mock examination were necessary experiences that would serve to make the system even better as the Board has now consolidated the software and is ready to give Nigerians the best.
“The results of the examination has since been released by the Board.
“However, the Board would like to stress that the prompt release of results for the mock examination would not be replicated during the upcoming Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) scheduled to commence from 25th April 2023,” the statement said.
This decision, the board said was made in order to give the board ample time to vet all results against any form of malpractice before making them public.
It added that the entire results of the entire eight-day exercise would be collated before they would be released to candidates.
“This measure ensures that the Board would not have to release any particular result and then recall same on account of established case of malpractice.
“In the same vein, assessing the entire results enables the Board to obtain the overall standard deviation and the mean of the performance of all the candidates who sat the examination.
“By doing this, the Board is able to aggregate the general performance of all candidates who sat the examination and factor same into the national education planning template, “the statement said.
