Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has so far
registered 1.5 million candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said this on Saturday during pre-JAMB mock examinations.
Oloyede said: “So far, it has even been better than our expectation,
it was a mock, the intention was to test the technology and it proved to
be perfect.
“I think from what we are seeing, we are more than ready for the main examination.
“At least 90 per cent of the examination centres have reported
positively, there have been proper downloading and preparation; even
after the exam we had uploaded responses of 80 per cent.
“We have done it to show that what works elsewhere across the world
should work in Nigeria; we believe we can do it efficiently; we will
continue to do our best.
“We have registered over 1.5million candidates in less than five
weeks; we believe that the reality we have put in place is good
enough.’’
Oloyede said that 633 centres were used to conduct the mock examination for 153, 000 candidates across the country.