Candidates with biometric challenges to write exam at JAMB Abuja HQ

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has informed the public that candidates with biometric challenges will write their 2019 UTME in the board’s Head Quatres

This was made available in the board’s weekly Bulletin Publication. Released on 25th February 2019.

The bulletin partly reads:

No fewer than 22 candidates with biometric registration challenges would sit the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at the Headquarters of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Abuja.

This is against the 24,490 number of candidates whose examinations were rescheduled on account of biometric verification challenges in the 2018 UTME.

Capturing candidates’ ten fingers during registration is a vital component in the processing and documentation of the UTME and Direct Entry registrations. All candidates taking the UTME must be verified using their ten fingers at the point of registration.

No candidate would be allowed into the examination hall without first being verified. It is part  of  the  screening m e c h a n i s m s t o p r e v e n t impersonation.

Before the commencement of the 2019 registration exercise, the Board made it clear that it would not reschedule examination for any candidate on account of biometric challenge. Any candidate, whose fingers could not be captured during registration at the CBT centre, must visit JAMB Headquarters for his/her registration.

This measure has reduced drastically the number of candidates with biometric challenges. Out of the 52   n a m e s s e n t t o t h e B o a r d ‘ s Headquarters from the states, only 22 showed up for registration despite the fact that the Board would be responsible for their transportation to and from Abuja.

The 22 candidates that presented themselves for registration were registered successfully. The interface between the ITS staff and the candidates unraveled the misery behind their inability to be captured during their initial registration experience.

At a meeting shortly before the commencement of the registration for the affected candidates, the Director, Information Technology Services Department, Mr. Fabian Okoro, told the candidates that the Board had to introduce this strict measure to find a lasting solution to the large number of candidates with BVM challenges. He noted that the move was to prevent fraud associated with failure of biometric capturing.

The Director noted that some unscrupulous elements had abused  t h i s window to perpetuate examination malpractice considering the large number of candidates that were recorded yearly and the cost of rescheduling examination for such candidates in the past.

Mr. Okoro disclosed that the Board decided to find a lasting solution to the problem by inviting candidates with peculiar problem of biometric capturing to the Headquarters of the Board for capturing and they would also take their examination at the same venue.

With this new resolve, the Board has been able to stop all fraudulent biometric cases.

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