No fewer than 260,000 candidates on Thursday sat for this yr’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination throughout 793 Pc–Primarily based Check centres throughout the nation.
The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this recognized after monitoring among 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, nineteenth April 2024.
He revealed that the examination physique additionally efficiently carried out a recruitment examination for Nigerian Police on Wednesday, including that the one few incidents recorded in the Mock UTME in about 4 centres could be resolved.
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“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 at the moment’s mock and that was in 411 centres throughout the nation, and at the moment we’re conducting our personal mock in 793 centres throughout the nation.
“Up to now, we have now about three or 4 locations the place they’ve one subject or the opposite, however we try to recover from that. So, it’s a good one, even these three (the place there are points), we can have a means of accommodating them even when they go down utterly. However every part is occurring nicely and the studies we have now, are that we’re very okay,” he stated.
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 for the true examination we have now 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.”
On the readiness for the principle UTME, Oloyede stated JAMB was absolutely ready for the graceful conduct of the examination, whilst he revealed that new mechanisms would even be deployed to additional fortify the examination system.
“We’re adequately prepared for the examination,….at the moment is a really special occasion for us. We all know we’re doing a little inner revolution this yr which we had been apprehensive of the workability…
“We will now say we have now arrived. What we stated to ourselves about six, seven years in the past, we have now been in a position to obtain at the moment,” he stated.
Oloyede revealed that the outcomes of the Mock UTME will both be launched on Thursday (at the moment) night or tomorrow (Friday).
Earlier, Info and Communications Expertise guide at JAMB, Damilola Bamiro, stated the examination physique was additionally absolutely in contact with all of the centres participating within the examination by the JAMB’s Scenario Room.
He stated the Scenario Room permits for real-time interplay between the centres and JAMB to speedily resolve any subject in the course of the examination.
The 2024 UTME will start on April 19, 2024, and finish on April 29, 2024, in line with the preliminary announcement.
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