JAMB scraps mop-up UTME, insists on no biometrics, no exams policy The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will no longer conduct mop-up examinations for candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) who are not biometrically verified. In its weekly bulletin on Monday in Abuja, JAMB said the move was to further strengthen the noose around examination malpractice. “The board has decided that the era whereby some candidates will present themselves at the examination venue and claim difficulty to be biometrically verified and expect the system to allow them...