2021 UTME: About 1.3 Million Candidates Take Examination Nationwide

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has commenced the conduct of 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which is expected to run till July 3 nationwide.

About 1.3 million candidates registered to sit for the examination while some were unable to take it due to the compulsory requirement of National Identification Number (NIN).

In some of the examination centres monitored in Abuja, there was delay in some centres due to some technical glitches while majority of the centres conducted the exam without any hitch.

At the Global Distance Learning Institute, Central Business District, Abuja, which is one of the accredited CBT centres, the first session of the examination started at about 8.15 am with 195 students.

An opinion leader supervising the centre, Abduraman Balogun, said the examination was free of hitches at the centre. He commended the board for ensuring that the examination was successful in most of the centres.

“Students are finishing the examination ahead of the time and the arrangement and the facilities are so perfect. It is a commendable effort from JAMB. We really have to commend the board for that wonderful work in terms of anticipatory challenges and how they are able to fix it,” he said.

Noting that there was no malpractice, he said that was made possible by the mock UTME which helped the candidates to prepare well.

At the Junior Secondary School in Jikwoyi, Abuja where 244 candidates registered with six absentees, some kind of technical hitches were experienced as some of the systems sparked off, thus delaying the normal kick off of the examination.

However, it was gathered that a technical staff was brought in to fix the problem.

One of the candidates, Aisha Moukhtar who sat the first session of the examination at Global Distance Learning Centre, said there were no technical issues apart from one person who complained that he could not submit.