The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Registrar/Chief Executive Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, today in Kaduna, during the opening ceremony of a strategic planning retreat on the monitoring, supervision and evaluation of 2017 UTME stated that candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) this year would spend two hours instead of three hours.

He said the reduction in exam time was in line with international best standards and practices where no candidate is kept in an examination such as UTME for more than two hours. In his words: “We are going to reduce the duration of the examination for this year’s UTME. You cannot keep children of this age for three hours. For their age, the maximum time you can keep them is two hours. So, we are considering the reduction in the time they spend because once it is more than two hours you can’t expect that they will retain their presence of mind.”

Oloyede added that out of 13 commercial banks and the Nigeria Postal Service that have signified interest in the sales of the admission forms, only nine have paid for the number of application documents they required in the first instance. In a related development, since JAMB started the sale of the 2017 UTME form, candidates have been finding it hard to complete their registration. Some have been complaining about difficulties in getting the pin to be used to register for the exam.

Source: http://www.studentsinfoportal.com/jamb/jamb-reduces-utme-exam-hours/

Cc: lalasticlala

Unnecessary move, anyway Good luck to those who are going to write the exam

Lord....Ishaq! Everytime "international best practice. " Is Nigeria a developed country? One that is still 300 years behind civilisation? And you want to suddenly become "civilised" on our Jambites....ehn? Kai!

Ok oo

what!we dey say 3 hours no fine u come reduce am.oloyede tamper justice with mercy

Pls I need help on the Course to choose out of the list courses, I don't have f/maths in my WAEC. UNILAG

register now

Where is Dinos malaye's weac result

Lol,it can only get better....

The man has a point tho

Jamb

Hmmm

Good move.

SeniorZato:
Where is Dinos malaye's weac result

you no fit spell "MELAYE" and simple "WAEC"? Where ya own "WEAC" result make we c wetin dem nak u for English

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Must you go to UNILAG? see as ur result sweet like sweet potatoe(

Lamzee:
Pls I need help on the Course to choose out of the list courses, I don't have f/maths in my WAEC. UNILAG

Great!

Lamzee:
Pls I need help on the Course to choose out of the list courses, I don't have f/maths in my WAEC. UNILAG

Geology

Jamb and annual bleep ups be like...

jupiterz:
register now

you lied! Who runs direct entry? Jumia?

They reduced the hours but the number of questions remain the same

they should reduce the number of questions too if they want to go that route

Better jare! Dis one Boys go Don finish teytey kon dey sleep 4 hall or start crosscheckn rubbish now it's Quickly Finish and Gerruff dat Damn Hall!

I hope they will also reduce the number of questions to meet international standards? And also upgrade the learning and teachings formats to meet international standards? How about allowing students research in the hall to meet international standards? Nonsense!!! Always going ahead of themselves all the time

Lamzee:
Pls I need help on the Course to choose out of the list courses, I don't have f/maths in my WAEC. UNILAG

Geography nau

Tazdroid:
you no fit spell "MELAYE" and simple "WAEC"? Where ya own "WEAC" result make we c wetin dem nak u for English

Na you suppose show us ur weac reault for not knowing that malaye or melaye are not English words

ok..tank god am nt a jambite...rep uniben

Oboy... We dey complain say time no dey reach us.. Dey con reduce am again
Chai!

SeniorZato:
Where is Dinos malaye's weac result

U mean "Alayeh Result" baa? Me I Dinno** ooo

Pretty bad tho.. Lol they should also reduce d questions