The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has engaged top IT experts and educational assessment professionals to investigate alleged technical glitches that marred the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. In separate interviews with The PUNCH on Sunday, some candidates blamed alleged technical glitches for the mass failure recorded in this year’s UTME. In the results released…
TODAY’S VIEWPOINT LOOKS AT JAMB AND THE BROKEN SYSTEM Disappointment settled over many homes when the joint admissions and matriculation board, jamb announced the release of the 2025 UTME results recently. Silence from candidates who had dared to dream, and silence from their parents who had done all they could to keep hope alive through…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday officially responded to public complaints about its recently released 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results. The Board described as the complaints as “unusual complaints” while adding that it came from few states of the Federation. While JAMB said it acknowledges the complaints, it is currently fast forwarding…
By Adebayo Yusuf Two educationists have called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB to create Computer Based Test, CBT centres across the nation as a way to ameliorate the challenges candidates faced while writing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. Apostle Segun Malomo and Alhaji Kayode Adeleke made the call while reacting to the…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has called on the candidates, who participated in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME to remain patient while it works towards the release of the results. The Board made the call in a post on its verified X handle on Tuesday. JAMB said the result will be…
The Osun Masterminds, TOM, has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to restructure its examination procedures. The Osun civil society organisation also demanded that accreditation and protocol activities commence by 8am instead of 6:30am. The demand by the group is coming after complaints of accidents, disappearance of candidates and inability of some…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has responded to criticisms by a former Presidential Candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, over the early resumption time for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Obi had, in a post on his social media platform on Sunday, decried reports of candidates, mostly teenagers, being asked to travel to…
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Abuja and other states of the federation with over two million candidates expected to sit for the entry level examination into tertiary institutions. Actual statistics gathered from JAMB officials indicate that about 2,030,627 candidates are registered to sit…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said the body has deployed a decoy website to apprehend candidates seeking to cheat in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination Mock examination.Prof. Oloyede disclosed this to reporters on Thursday while monitoring the exercise at a CBT centre in Bwari, Abuja, the nation’s capital.He…
BALANCING MERIT AND MATURITY IN JAMB’S AGE POLICY IS THE FOCUS OF TODAY’S VIEWPOINT. As prospective candidates gear up for 2025 unified tertiary matriculation examination, the question of eligibility for under 16 hangs in the air. A delta state high court recently ruled that the 16 years minimum admission age policy of the joint admissions…