UTME 2024: Candidates experience glitches as examination continues nationwide

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This year, 1.9 million candidates registered for the examination, which started on Friday, 19 April, and would continue until Monday, 29 April.

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Benjamin Samson from Gwagwalada said he arrived at the venue at 11 a.m. for his examination scheduled for noon. He said JAMB’s specification for the CBT centres is 17 inches wide screen but some of the computers in the hall are only 14 inches wide.Though no candidates experienced difficulty at the centre, he said candidates whose examinations were rescheduled from other centres will take their test at the centre.At the Future Gate Model School in New Karu, students whose examination was slated for 9 a.m., were seen checking into the hall around 10:00 a.m.

“This is done to save us time. We arrived at 5:30 in the morning and we began verifying the first batch around 6: 00 a.m.,” he said. Another candidate, Raphel Ode, the process was better than the previous times he sat for the examinations. “But for this ongoing session, 240 people were accredited for the exam. Nine candidates were absent while one candidate could not be verified,” he said.

Chidinma Izundu, one of the candidates from the centre, said apart from the fact that there were no technical hitches; JAMB officials ensured that there was no form of malpractice during the exercise.Ms Izundu, 17, who had written the same examination the previous year, also observed that there was an improvement in this year’s exercise.

“You cannot even sit with somebody who is writing the same thing with you,” she said of the sitting arrangement.“I was able to log in and there was no problem. There were no technical issues. Everything was flawless,” 17-year-old Obiefuna, who is seeking to study medicine, said.In Okeho, Kajola Local Government Area of Oyo state, the examination was well organised in the two accredited centres: DamDav CBT Centre I and II by the examination body.

 

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