The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, efficiently performed 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-Based mostly Take a look at, CBT, centres nationwide.
Registrar/Chief Government of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, revealed the figures after monitoring the conduct in 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 primary UTME, which can start on Friday, nineteenth April, 2024.
He revealed that the examination physique additionally efficiently performed 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.
He stated, “Thus far so good, we’re doing mock after mock, simply yesterday we performed 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.
“Thus far, now we have about three or 4 locations the place they’ve one concern 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 manner of accomodating them even when they go down utterly. However all the things is happening properly and the stories now we have, is that we’re very okay.”
Talking additional, the JAMB boss stated 1.98 million candidates registered for the primary 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 true examination now we have 1.98 million, as a result of we don’t wish to flip our mock to a different examination that’s the reason we didn’t permit greater than that quantity to register for the mock examination, which is simply to check the system,” he added.
On the readiness for the primary UTME, Oloyede stated JAMB was totally ready for the sleek 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….as we speak is a really big day for us. We all know we’re performing some inside revolution this 12 months which we have been apprehensive of the workability.
“We are able to now say now we have arrived, what we stated to ourselves about six, seven years in the past, now we have been capable of 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 tomorrow (Friday).
Earlier, Data and Communications Expertise, ICT marketing consultant at JAMB, Damilola Bamiro, stated the examination physique was additionally totally in contact with all of the centres participating within the examination via the JAMB’s Scenario Room.
He stated the Scenario Room permits for actual time interplay between the centres and JAMB to speedily resolve any concern throughout the examination.
