As Nigerian students prepare for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has come out to say the board has introduced new innovations to ensure the conduct of 2019 UTME exam is a success.
His words, “A separate indicator had also been created for the deaf (mute) to differentiate them for special attention at the examination centre. Efforts are on to provide option of special centres or mainstreaming for the blind.
“We now have live report on centres that registered any candidate, the time the candidate was registered, who registered the candidate, computer system used, the location of registration.
“All these are done through our enhanced monitoring system. I want to warn candidates expected to sit for its examination to ensure their biometrics were taken and verified or risk sitting for the examination,’’
He urged candidates to adhere to the rules of the examination body.
He also said biometric verification will be the only recognized mode for acceptance of candidates into the examination halls.
He continued, “Any candidate that cannot be verified by the Biometric Verification Mode (BVM) must not be allowed to take the examination under any guise.
“All candidates whose fingerprints could not be captured during registration from centres across the country were brought to JAMB Headquarters and were registered appropriately.
“In other words, exemption mode is not allowed for any candidate. Therefore, no biometric verification, no examination.”
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