The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
on Monday said that it would not extend the period of registration of
candidates for its 2017 all Computer Based Test (CBT) UTME.
The board’s Registrar,
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede told newsmen on the sideline of a stakeholders’ meeting
attended by owners of CBT centres nationwide, organised by JAMB at the
University of Lagos.
According to him,
registration of candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
will be for a period of one month – March 20 to April 19, as against the
previous three months period.
He said that the
essence of reducing the period of registration from three months to one month
was to eliminate all ills associated with prolonged registration of candidates.
“There will also be
mock examination for prospective candidates, and this examination will be
purely optional.
“Those who register for
the mock examination will sit for it on April 8, but the UTME proper will
commence on May 6 to May 20.
“We have put in place
facilities that will make it easy for candidates to register.
“For instance, as soon
as a candidate creates his profile on his mobile phone, automatically, we will
send our e-syllabus and e-brochure into his e-mail.
“So, even before going
to pay for the mock, he already has all the materials that he will need for the
registration.
“We are also talking to
CBT centre operators not to extort candidates just as we are also asking
candidates not to pay now for the mock examination which is purely optional,’’
the registrar said.
He said that the mock
examination had been made free by JAMB for interested candidates, adding that
the gesture was part of the board’s corporate social responsibility.
According to Oloyede,
candidates would pay N700 to owners of centres where they would be posted at
the point of registration for the mock examination.
“We will not charge
fees for the mock examination because we want to do it as our own way of giving
back to the society.
“But the CBT centres
will be allowed to charge a token of N700 for the mock and it is at that point
that all prospective candidates for the mock examination are expected to pay.
“There will also be no
cash transaction. Candidates can use their ATMs or if they must use cash, they
can pay into the banks to avoid extortion of any kind.
“This is because there
are people out there that want to take advantage of these candidates’ naivety.
“So it is important for
candidates to keep passwords to their e–emails, ATM cards and even registration
numbers to themselves and safe, to avoid being exposed to those who might want
to take advantage of them’’ he said.
The registrar added
that over 600 public and private centres had been approved for the conduct of
this year’s UTME nationwide.
He said that so far,
the board was satisfied with the level of readiness of the centres for the
examination.
He added that the board
would not accredit centres jointly owned by associations, adding that
accreditation was based strictly on individual operator and those accredited as
owner of CBT centre.
The registrar said that
the essence of the stakeholders’ meeting with owners of centres was to put
finishing touches to the state of readiness ahead of the examination.
“I started this morning
by interacting with transporters, after which I met with the state coordinators
and later with banks and now with CBT centre operators.
“The essence is to
ensure that everybody involved in the preparation for registration of
candidates for the examination will have adequate information and is carried
along.
“We are equally
distributing materials to centres all over the country; for instance, the
e-syllabus and e-brochure will be distributed to every prospective candidate
among other things,’’ he said.
The News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) reports that no fewer than 400 CBT centre operators nationwide participated
in the meeting.
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