About eighty thousand candidates will write the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) now rescheduled for May 6.

Results will also be released starting today, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said.

A statement by the Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the delay was due to the screening of results. It added that candidates who were verified at their centres but could not write the examination, those who biometrics could not be verified, and those with mismatched data, would not get their result, but instead get a notification for rescheduled exams.

The statement reads: “The Board would be releasing the results of candidates who have taken the examination so far today. The results were delayed to ensure that all necessary screenings were concluded, besides ensuring that the mean and standard deviation were reasonably obtained before releasing these results.

“Those who wrote the examination but had challenges, without being aware of such, would not see their results, but would instead see their notification for rescheduled examination. As part of decisions reached at the end of an emergency management meeting on April 30, the Board has fixed May 6 for a retake for candidates who have not written their examination. All candidates under the categories listed above are required to print their slips between May 4 and 5 so they can know the time and venue of their examination.

“Candidates would be grouped in a central location within their respective states to write the examination, hence the need for them to print their notification slips latest by May 4.” (The Nation)