The highly anticipated Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, starts today across the country. The examination date which was shifted twice because of the general elections still clashed with WASSCE date. And it is obvious, as usual, that many of the candidates who registered for 2019 UTME did with the hope of using their WASSCE results for admission at the end of the exercise.

JAMB had clarified that those candidates awaiting results would be given the opportunity to register and sit for the examination as they are expected to upload details of results after examination. This is the reason behind the tremendous registration of candidates.


People have expected the two examination bodies to do something about the examination date which clashed with each other. However, the Spokesperson of WAEC, Mr Demian Ojijeogu told Vanguard yesterday that there is no clash in the examination date between both examinations.


He said: “There’s no clash, have you seen the timetable’’?



He however stated that the subject which clashed with JAMB is animal husbandry and it has a very low candidature, citing that you can barely see a student sitting for it.



He said: “When you check the examination time table, you can see first and second set for each subject. This first and second set means that if you miss the first, you can sit for the second. It is an alternative. It is only in Animal Husbandry, we don’t have first and second set.’’



However, a source from WAEC has stated that both examination bodies have met yesterday to resolve the issues and that no student will be hindered from writing both examinations.


She said: ‘’There is a lot of discussions going on between WAEC and JAMB. We have pleaded with JAMB to delay the paper slated for tomorrow (today) a little bit for us (WAEC). ‘’For Animal Husbandry, we don’t have option and we don’t want anybody to miss it because animal husbandry candidates are usually not enough.

‘’You know the kind of interpretation that will be given to it because we have had similar experiences like these before. Therefore, the only option we had was to plead with JAMB to delay their own paper for tomorrow. I am telling you because we don’t have anything to hide. Nobody will miss the paper tomorrow.’’

In his reaction, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB allayed the fears of candidates, stressing that they would not be denied the opportunity of writing the examination.

The timetable of WAEC shows to that students are expected to write Animal Husbandry today, April 11, Thursday by 9:00 a.m. This is just as JAMB candidates are also expected to sit for the UTME today, Thursday.



Benjamin explained that WAEC starts with practicals and that it has so many sessions for its practicals. Benjamin on Tuesday said the authorities of JAMB and WAEC had met and given assurance that the examinations would not clash. He explained that the WAEC Practicals are in sections, adding that there was no clash at all and that allegation of a clash in timetable is unfounded and baseless.



He said: “WAEC has given us an assurance that it has accommodated all the fears of candidates. That the practical subjects are scheduled in sections in such a way that there would not be any clash (between UTME and WASCCE) at all.“This is as a result of the meeting between the Head of the National Office of WAEC, Mr Isaac Adenipekun and JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede.“

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