The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says,henceforth, no candidate would be allowed to sit the Board’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) if they are not verified biometrically.
The decision, which arose from a rigorous review of the 2022 UTME exercise, is borne out of the need to close all leakages noticed during the examination.
It is to be noted that examination malpractice is one of the major obstacles faced by all public examination bodies globally; hence the Board has consistently taken steps to confront this monster frontally.
The examination body reports that to combat this menace, the Board has taken full advantage of technology by introducing, among others, biometric capturing of a candidate’s ten fingers during UTME Registration to ensure that there is a convincing match between the fingerprints captured and those presented by the candidate at the examination venue.
It said any scenario other than this is an invitation to an examination security breach.
The Board emphasized that it was against the backdrop of this robust initiative of capturing all ten fingers of candidates rather than just one or two fingers from each hand, as was hitherto the case, that it decided that the era whereby some candidates would present themselves at the examination venue and claim difficulty to be biometrically verified and expect the system to allow them to sit the examination is gone for good.
