The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
has announced that there will be a mock examination before the conduct of the
2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The exam board made
the statement following the announcement of its plans to begin
sale of forms for the 2017 UTME on March 20.
Ishaq Oloyede, the registrar of JAMB, in a statement released on
Monday, March 13, noted that the mock examination would be held in all
accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) centres to prepare and familiarise
interested candidates with the CBT environment.
It added that the mock
examination is completely optional and will take place on April 8, 2017.
Interested candidates are advised to indicate their interest in
the mock examination during the registration process.
Apart from the registration fee for UTME 2017 which is N5, 500,
the statement said The CBT Centres are allowed to collect through their (CBT
Centres) bank accounts, a separate ₦700 only, for the mock test after
notification of centre has been received by the candidate.
“Payment for mock
examination shall be made to the centres to which the candidate is assigned
after the notification of assigned centres for the mock examination. No
Association or body is permitted to run any mock examination on behalf of
JAMB,” the
statement said.
The statement warned candidates not to pay for the mock until a
CBT centre is assigned to them by the Board.
The sale of the UTME 2017 forms will close on April 19, while
the examination is slated to hold between May 6 and 20.
AMB
first introduced the computer-based test (CBT) method of writing its UTME in
2013, and conducted the examination in 2013 and 2014 using three modes, namely,
dual-based test, paper pencil test and CBT.
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