JAMB Will Begin Sale of 2017 UTME Forms Very Soon

About 1.7 million candidates are expected to apply according to the Registrar, Prof. Oloyede.

The Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Tuesday hinted that the body would soon commence the sale of the application form for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

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Oloyede said an estimated 1.7 million candidates are expected register and sit for the Computer Based Test (CBT) across the country, adding that they are also increasing the capacity of the CBT centers to maximize their effectiveness to examine more candidates within a given date.

The Chief Executive Officer of JAMB made this known at the Green Legacy, Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL), Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while fielding questions from journalists shortly after a meeting of the JAMB officials and other stakeholders regarding the new IT being introduced into the system to make it less stressful to candidates.

According to him, the body is working with the possibility of conducting a “mock examination” not only to test its preparedness with the new technology, but also to examine some people that are desirous of knowing their competence with the JAMB examination.

Oloyede said Nigeria is ripe for an ICT – driven examinations, disclosing that the innovation would definitely unsettle some people, who hitherto were short-changing JAMB through “fraud” and in some cases, duplication of PIN.