The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) said it had so far registered 1.5 million
candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME) across the country.
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede,
disclosed this in an interview with the
newsmen on Saturday at side line of activities marking the pre-JAMB mock examinations.

It will be recalled that the JAMB mock
examinations earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday May 8 had been postponed to ensure smooth conduct of
the exam.


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.

In separate interviews, some of examination
centre coordinators and candidates lauded JAMB for
the mock initiative geared towards equipping the
candidates to do better in the main exam.

Mr Abdul-Aziz Olasoyinka, Technical Research
Officer of Digital Bridge Institute, commended
JAMB for the mock examination.

He said it was apt in terms of preparation for
future exams.
Olasoyinka said: “Mock is a good experience
because
it will help the candidates to adequately
prepare for
the forthcoming examination.
“It helps to evaluate how well the candidates
have
prepared and to improve themselves ahead of
time.”
Mr Olajide Adisa, Director of Outstations at
JAMB,
said although there were 230 capacities at
the
Computer Based Test (CBT) centre, plans
were on to
upgrade to 250 them before the main exam.
“Even with that our specification is that at
least we
should have 10 per cent of same capacity as
back-
up in case of any breakdown.
“We have already put measures in place to
test them
in the course of the mock examination, they
will be
ready before the main examination,” Adisa
said.
A candidate, Miss Hadiza Abdullahi, told NAN
that the
mock examination had improved her level of
confidence ahead of the main exam.
She described the examination as
encouraging,
adding that she expects to sit for the main
examination well-equipped.
Abdullahi, however appealed to the board to
put
measures in place to enable candidates
wanting to
register for future exam to do so with ease.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports
that the
mock examination held in three sessions,
including
the JAMB headquarter and CBT centre in
Kogo
community.

Source : https://naijacrooks.com/2017/04/jamb-registers-1-5-million-candidates/

1.5 million?? And the universities in total cant admit more than 300,000 in all...



May God help us...

doctimonyeka:
1.5 million?? And the universities in total cant admit more than 300,000 in all...



May God help us...

JAMB is not for university alone. There are monotechnics, polytechnics, college of education.