The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has set the date for the mock
test of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.
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It has been reported that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation
Board now says the much-anticipated conduct of the 2018 Mock Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination will hold on Feb. 26.
According to Punch Metro, JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Dr
Fabian Benjamin, on Sunday in Lagos said 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 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,” 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,” Benjamin explained.
The main UTME is expected to hold nationwide from March 9 to March 17.
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