2018 UTME: JAMB fixes date for mock examination

 

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Sunday said the much anticipated conduct of the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would now hold on February 26.
The board’s Head, Media and Information, Fabian Benjamin, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.
According to him, a total of 245,753 of the 1,652,795 candidates that registered for this year’s  UTME are expected to write the test.
“We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26.
“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of the non-academic  unions of federal universities nationwide.
“Candidates will soon be informed on when to print notifications for the examination and in addition, notifications will be sent through e-mails and text messages on the schedules of their examination,” Dr. Benjamin said.
He explained that the examination was expected to be hitch free because the board had successfully reduced incidences of malfunctioning of computers by electronically integrating the systems to see their functionality and effectiveness through link tests.
“What this means is that, at the end if the exercise, whatever system that is not seen will not be used for the mock examination.
“The 2018 exercise sold a total of 1, 966,918 candidate generating profiles.
“In previous examinations this number of candidates would have paid for the forms but through our efficient and effective system of ensuring that candidates do not waste resources, we decided to introduce the profile generating regime.

“By this method, candidates will first have to   generate personal  profiles before proceeding to obtain pins, in between which they are open to deciding whether to go ahead to pay for the registration documents or otherwise,” Mr. Benjamin explained.
The main UTME is expected to hold nationwide from March.

ABUJA-THE 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will take place between March 9 and 17, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. JAMB Candidates The examination, according to JAMB, is to be preceded with mock examination, which also will take place in the first week of February. Its registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while disclosing this Tuesday, during a meeting he held with stakeholders, said the most examination earlier billed to take place between January 22 and 24 was shifted to the new dates, attributing the change the ongoing industrial action by public universities’ non teaching staff. Oloyede, who spoke at the meeting with a theme:“Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation”, said: “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike. ” He also disclosed that about 10 percent of prospective candidates for this year’s UTME have purchased and registered for the examination. According to him, a total number of candidates that have registered was about 283,319. He used the occasion to warn candidates against using prohibited items during the examination exercises, saying those who fall prey to the law would have themselves to blame. The prohibition of materials, he said, was applicable to candidates, supervisors and examiners., adding, ” candidates, examiners, invigilators will be allowed to enter the examination hall with wrist watches, pencils except HB pencils and cameras.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/breaking-jamb-sets-dates-2018-utme/

ABUJA-THE 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will take place between March 9 and 17, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. JAMB Candidates The examination, according to JAMB, is to be preceded with mock examination, which also will take place in the first week of February. Its registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while disclosing this Tuesday, during a meeting he held with stakeholders, said the most examination earlier billed to take place between January 22 and 24 was shifted to the new dates, attributing the change the ongoing industrial action by public universities’ non teaching staff. Oloyede, who spoke at the meeting with a theme:“Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation”, said: “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike. ” He also disclosed that about 10 percent of prospective candidates for this year’s UTME have purchased and registered for the examination. According to him, a total number of candidates that have registered was about 283,319. He used the occasion to warn candidates against using prohibited items during the examination exercises, saying those who fall prey to the law would have themselves to blame. The prohibition of materials, he said, was applicable to candidates, supervisors and examiners., adding, ” candidates, examiners, invigilators will be allowed to enter the examination hall with wrist watches, pencils except HB pencils and cameras.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/breaking-jamb-sets-dates-2018-utme/

ABUJA-THE 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will take place between March 9 and 17, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. JAMB Candidates The examination, according to JAMB, is to be preceded with mock examination, which also will take place in the first week of February. Its registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while disclosing this Tuesday, during a meeting he held with stakeholders, said the most examination earlier billed to take place between January 22 and 24 was shifted to the new dates, attributing the change the ongoing industrial action by public universities’ non teaching staff. Oloyede, who spoke at the meeting with a theme:“Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation”, said: “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike. ” He also disclosed that about 10 percent of prospective candidates for this year’s UTME have purchased and registered for the examination. According to him, a total number of candidates that have registered was about 283,319. He used the occasion to warn candidates against using prohibited items during the examination exercises, saying those who fall prey to the law would have themselves to blame. The prohibition of materials, he said, was applicable to candidates, supervisors and examiners., adding, ” candidates, examiners, invigilators will be allowed to enter the examination hall with wrist watches, pencils except HB pencils and cameras.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/breaking-jamb-sets-dates-2018-utme/

ABUJA-THE 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will take place between March 9 and 17, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. JAMB Candidates The examination, according to JAMB, is to be preceded with mock examination, which also will take place in the first week of February. Its registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while disclosing this Tuesday, during a meeting he held with stakeholders, said the most examination earlier billed to take place between January 22 and 24 was shifted to the new dates, attributing the change the ongoing industrial action by public universities’ non teaching staff. Oloyede, who spoke at the meeting with a theme:“Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation”, said: “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike. ” He also disclosed that about 10 percent of prospective candidates for this year’s UTME have purchased and registered for the examination. According to him, a total number of candidates that have registered was about 283,319. He used the occasion to warn candidates against using prohibited items during the examination exercises, saying those who fall prey to the law would have themselves to blame. The prohibition of materials, he said, was applicable to candidates, supervisors and examiners., adding, ” candidates, examiners, invigilators will be allowed to enter the examination hall with wrist watches, pencils except HB pencils and cameras.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/breaking-jamb-sets-dates-2018-utme/

ABUJA-THE 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will take place between March 9 and 17, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said. JAMB Candidates The examination, according to JAMB, is to be preceded with mock examination, which also will take place in the first week of February. Its registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while disclosing this Tuesday, during a meeting he held with stakeholders, said the most examination earlier billed to take place between January 22 and 24 was shifted to the new dates, attributing the change the ongoing industrial action by public universities’ non teaching staff. Oloyede, who spoke at the meeting with a theme:“Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation”, said: “We are unable to access our CBT centres because most of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike. ” He also disclosed that about 10 percent of prospective candidates for this year’s UTME have purchased and registered for the examination. According to him, a total number of candidates that have registered was about 283,319. He used the occasion to warn candidates against using prohibited items during the examination exercises, saying those who fall prey to the law would have themselves to blame. The prohibition of materials, he said, was applicable to candidates, supervisors and examiners., adding, ” candidates, examiners, invigilators will be allowed to enter the examination hall with wrist watches, pencils except HB pencils and cameras.”

Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/01/breaking-jamb-sets-dates-2018-utme/