The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says 24,535 candidates who sat for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been rescheduled to retake the examination.

The Board said the decision was prompted by substantial non-compliance with the Board’s standards in the affected candidates examination centres.

According to the statement, the Board has painstakingly analyzed the process and conduct of the 2024 UTME in some centres where there are strong proofs of substantial non-compliance with the Board’s standards.
It added that Consequently, 24,535 candidates have been rescheduled to retake the examination in their chosen Examination Towns on Saturday, June 22, 2024.

Meanwhile, 3,921 outstanding 2024 UTME results that had been cleared have now been released.

The examination body urged the concerned candidates to check their results from Saturday,1st June,2024 by sending RESULT to 55019 or 66019 to ascertain their status as those cleared would have their results while those rescheduled would be told that they had been rescheduled.

It enjoined the rescheduled candidates to print their supplementary Examination Notification Slip from Tuesday, 4th June, 2024 to ascertain their designated examination centres. Jamb said the release of additional results bring the total results released to 1,883,350.

The rescheduled examination, which is taking place on Saturday, 22nd June, 2024, two weeks from now, is to give affected candidates adequate time to prepare for the exercise.
Jamb added that the notice does not concern candidates whose results have been released.

It stressed that Candidates with prima facie case(s) of examination misconduct, would be further interrogated to establish their culpability after which appropriate measures would be taken on them and announced.