Kuni Tyessi in Abuja
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has efficiently carried out mock examinations for over 260,000 candidates who enrolled for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Thursday.
The mock examination held throughout 793 Pc-Primarily based Check (CBT) centres nationwide.
The Registrar/Chief Government of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed the figures after monitoring the conduct in a number of the centres in Abuja.
Oloyede, who expressed delight over the seamless conduct of the train nationwide, stated the examination was to check the preparedness for the principle UTME, which is able to start on Friday, April 19, 2024.
He revealed that the examination physique additionally efficiently carried out recruitment examination for the Nigeria Police Drive on Wednesday, including that the one few incidents recorded within the Mock UTME in about 4 centres could be resolved.
His phrases: “Up to now so good, we’re doing mock after mock. Simply yesterday, we carried out recruitment for the Police Service Fee all through the nation. That was a mock earlier than as we speak’s mock and that was in 411 centres throughout the nation, and as we speak we’re conducting our personal mock in 793 centres throughout the nation.
“Up to now, we’ve about three or 4 locations the place they’ve one situation or the opposite, however we are attempting to recover from that. So, it’s a good one, even these three (the place there are points), we could have a means of accommodating them even when they go down utterly. However all the things is happening nicely and the stories we’ve, is that we’re very okay.”
Talking additional, the JAMB boss stated that 1.98 million candidates registered for the principle 2024 UTME out of which over 260,000 took half within the mock examination.
“Over 260,000 candidates are sitting for the (mock) examination, however the actual examination we’ve 1.98 million, as a result of we don’t need to flip our mock to a different examination, that’s the reason we didn’t enable greater than that quantity to register for the mock examination, which is simply to check the system,” he stated.
On the readiness for the principle UTME, Oloyede stated JAMB was totally ready for the graceful conduct of the examination, at the same time as he revealed that new mechanisms would even be deployed to additional fortify the examination system.
”We are able to now say we’ve arrived. What we stated to ourselves about six, seven years in the past, we’ve been in a position to obtain it as we speak,” he stated.
Oloyede revealed that the outcomes of the Mock UTME will both be launched on Thursday (as we speak) night or Friday.
Earlier, the Data and Communications Know-how (ICT) advisor at JAMB, Damilola Bamiro, stated the examination physique was additionally totally in contact with all of the centres collaborating within the examination by means of the JAMB’s State of affairs Room.
He stated the State of affairs Room permits for actual time interplay between the centres and JAMB to speedily resolve any situation throughout the examination.
