”At the post-examination analysis held to conduct a post mortem of the examination, the Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed that the mock- examination, conducted in 757 centres across the nation, was held with little or no hitches. He stated that the board was primed to deliver the most seamless examination ever, come May 6. The statement also quoted the Registrar as advising proprietors of Computer-Based Tests (CBT) centres nationwide, not to rest on their oars, but consolidate on the success recorded in the mock exercise. Oloyede added that the centres must deliver a better outcome in the main examination in May. He reiterated that the mock examination was instituted to principally test its facilities and ascertain its readiness for the main UTME. It was also instituted, he explained, to provide candidates with the opportunity to experience the testing system and how to apply it in the main examination. ” Taking the mock examination had proved to be one of the most effective tests of readiness for the main examination, ” Oloyede said. NAN reports that a total of 1.8 million candidates had been registered for this year’s main UTME The Informant247

JAMB registers 1.1m candidates for 2023 UTME

ByRasak Ayanlakin

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that over 1.1million applicants registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede made this disclosure on Saturday while examining the ongoing registration exercise in some computer based test centres (CBT) in Abuja, the country’s capital.

He also revealed that the examination board would not extend the deadline for students to register for the examination.

He warned CBT centres against extortion of students applying for the examination.

The Informant247 recalls that the sale of the 2023 UTME began on Saturday January 14, 2023 and is to close Tuesday February 14, 2023.

Oloyede said: “Registration is going on well except some of these schools.

“UTME is not a school based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what that school, Stella Maris is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up mixing up the telephone number of the candidates.

“So once they keep the telephone number of candidates it is unlikely that the candidates, when we are contacting them if we want to make a change in their timetable, you send a text to them and it will not get to them. After they have graduated from the school and want to do change of course, they don’t have access to it.

“And that is a way of extorting the parents. We will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that. One of the reasons is that we will tell evey CBT centre to stop doing bulk purchase of pin and bulk registration. So, if s centre sells more than one pin to a source or collects money for more than one pin from a source then we will sanction such centre.”

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Rasak Ayanlakin is an Osun based journalist. He writes and reports news for The Informant247.

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