The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has
expressed optimism for a hitch-free examination scheduled for May.
The board made this known in its Weekly Bulletin of the
Office of the Registrar on Monday, in Abuja.
JAMB had scheduled the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) to hold between May 6 and May 16.
The board said that it was sure to deliver a seamless
exercise in its main examination, in all its 757 centres across the country.
This, it said, followed the success recorded in the mock-
UTME which was held on Saturday, April 9.
” At the post-examination analysis held to conduct a post
mortem of the examination, the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed that
the mock- examination, conducted in 757 centres across the nation, was held
with little or no hitches.
He stated that the board was primed to deliver the most
seamless examination ever, come May 6.
The statement also quoted the Registrar as advising
proprietors of Computer-Based Tests (CBT) centres nationwide, not to rest on
their oars, but consolidate on the success recorded in the mock exercise.
Oloyede added that the centres must deliver a better outcome
in the main examination in May.
He reiterated that the mock examination was instituted to
principally test its facilities and ascertain its readiness for the main UTME.
It was also instituted, he explained, to provide candidates
with the opportunity to experience the testing system and how to apply it in
the main examination.
” Taking the mock examination had proved to be one of the
most effective tests of readiness for the main examination,” Oloyede said.
NAN reports that a total of 1.8 million candidates had been
registered for this year’s main UTME.