Joint Admission Matriculation Board Fixes May 17-31st for UTME

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has on Wednesday, scheduled the 17th to the 31st of May for the conduct of 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) through Computer Based Test (CBT).

Please note that this information is coming directly from a statement which was signed by Mr Fabian Gabriel, the Head of Public Relations of the board, and issued to newsmen in Abuja.

According to the statement released, the Computer Base Test (CBT) will take place in over 163 centres in Nigeria and abroad, saying the date was sacrosanct.

According to the information which was contained in statement, which best described CBT as the best mode of examination.

Although according to the statement, the JAMB board urged all candidates to reprint their e-slip in the event they missed or misplaced their schedules.

“Over 616,000 candidates are expected to sit for the examination with over 250 prisoners in Kaduna and Ikoyi prisons,” it added.

“I think it’s important that we note here that the JAMB CBT exam remains the best mode as it provides better platform for the candidates to articulate their educational pursuit.

“It eliminates result black-out or incomplete results and eliminates examination malpractice and enhances prompt release of scores two hours after the examination, among other benefits too numerous to mention,” the statement said.

It added that the board was determined to go full-blown with CBT in 2015 UTME, owing to success recorded in 2013 and the quests to sanitise the education sector.

According to the statement, which said that the JAMB CBT examination, which was introduced in 2012, has gone a long way in helping out the country meet up with other top countries educational system. While the maiden edition was conducted in the 2013 UTME alongside the conventional Paper Pencil Test and Dual Based Test.

The statement also went forward to confirm that the jamb registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, saying that the desire to go full swing with CBT in 2015 was non-negotiable.

It urged Nigerians to see it as a revolution in the examination industry. (NAN)

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