The Registrar Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof
Isaq Oloyede has said that registration for the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination, UTME is no longer for three month but one
month as he says that interested candidates should not pay for the Mock
examination.
He said that registration is now for one month because they want to
eliminate all the ills associated with prolonged registration.
According to Oloyede registration starts on the 20th of March and ends on 19th of April as he added that there will be an optional mock (Trial) examination for those who registered for it on the 8th of April.
Speaking during an interactive session with stakeholders from the 36
states of the federation including -transporters, state coordinators,
banks, computer Based Test, CBT operators and telecommunication
companies, he said the interaction was necessary so that everybody
involved in the preparation will be adequately informed and material
distribute all over the country.
He said; “The examination proper starts on the 6th to 20th of
May and we have put in place facilities to make the registration easy.
For instance, as a student creates his profile on his cell phone, we
will automatically send the e- syllabus and brochure to the student’s
e-mail. So even before going to pay, he has all the materials that he
will need for registrations.
“And we are also telling the CBT centres not to extort students as we
are asking students not to pay now for the newly introduced MOCK
examination. You will pay for the MOCK examination at the CBT centres
where you are posted. When you apply for MOCK examination we are not
charging for anything because we want to use it as part of our Corporate
Social Responsibility, CSR but the CBT owners will be allowed to charge
N700 for the MOCK and it is at that point and to them that you will
pay.”
Advising students not to do cash transaction, he said they should use
their ATM “and if you want to use cash, go to the bank so that you will
not be extorted. Also, don’t give any of your pin to anyone because
there are people out there that want to take advantage of your naivety.
It is important to keep all your passwords so that you do not unduly
expose them to those who want to extort you.”
On admission for the blind, he said he cannot say that the blind will
get automatic admission after they pass the examination but can appeal
to the universities just the way they were appealed to the last time.
“What we did this year was to appeal to them to admit all the
qualified blind candidates and we were obliged; so all the blind
candidates who were qualified have been granted admission by the
universities.
Next year we will still appeal to them to cooperate with us as they
did the last time because that is the only thing we can do,” he said.
He also explained that JAMB has approved more than 600 centres across
the nation and across public and private centres but added that they do
not accredit any association. “There is no association that we have
accredited for CBT centre. Every individual CBT centre is treated as
owner of CBT centre because somebody accredited this year may not be
necessarily accredited next year,” he added.
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