No make-up exam for UTME latecomers – Oloyede warns

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has reiterated there will be no rescheduling of examination for any Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination’s candidates who came late for the examination.

He also said JAMB had delisted and blacklisted six Computer-Based Test centres in the ongoing 2020 UTME for various technical hitches.

Oloyede, who disclosed this in an exclusive interview with our correspondent in Abuja, added that the affected candidates in the delisted centres had been redistributed to other centres.

He, however, insisted that there would be no make-up examination for latecomers to the UTME centres.

He said, “If we say your examination starts by 7am, you are expected to be there before 7am. If we say 9am, you are expected before 9am. We know that we don’t start by 7am; we start screening by 7am and by 8am, we start the examination.

“But once we have finished the screening, officials will now go and push the examination (from the JAMB server). So, we cannot because of one candidate who come late go and re-push the examination. So, your coming late to an examination is at your own risk; you created it and we have no apology for it.

“In our own days, in the previous day, you would have gone to the centres to see where you were going to take your examination. So, there is no apology for this. A parent also called me that he was at the venue of the examination and his son decided to rest in the car and so, he slept off. What is my problem about that?

“So, if you are catching a flight and you decided to sleep off. Will you stop the plane from taking off or you will ask the plane to come back? No, you will wait for the next flight. And for us, the next flight (session) is next year.”

Oloyede added that it had now conducted examination for 1.3 million candidates as of Thursday out of about 1.9 million that registered for the UTME.

He also noted that some of the delisted centres were in Oyo, Imo and Gombe states.