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EDUCATION

260,000 Candidates Sit for 2024 Mock-UTME, Says JAMB

March 7, 2024 • 3 min read

No fewer than 260,000 candidates on Thursday sat for this year’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination across 793 computer-based test centres across the country.

The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made this known after monitoring some of the centres in Abuja.

Oloyede, who expressed delight over the seamless conduct of the exercise nationwide, said the exam was to test the preparedness for the main UTME, which would commence on Friday, 19th April 2024.

He revealed that the exam body also successfully conducted a recruitment examination for Nigerian Police on Wednesday, adding that the only few incidents recorded in the Mock UTME in about four centres would be resolved.

“So far so good, we are doing mock after mock, just yesterday we conducted recruitment for the Police Service Commission throughout the country, that was a mock before today’s mock and that was in 411 centres across the country, and today we are conducting our own mock in 793 centres across the country.

“So far, we have about three or four places where they have one issue or the other, but we are trying to get over that. So, it is a good one, even those three (where there are issues), we will have a way of accommodating them even if they go down completely. But everything is going on well and the reports we have, are that we are very okay,” he said.

Speaking further, the JAMB boss said that 1.98 million candidates registered for the main 2024 UTME out of which over 260,000 took part in the mock exam.

“Over 260,000 candidates are sitting for the (mock) exam but for the real exam we have 1.98 million because we don’t want to turn our mock to another exam that is why we did not allow more than that number to register for the mock exam, which is just to test the system”, Oloyede said.

On the readiness for the main UTME, he said JAMB was fully prepared for the smooth conduct of the exam, even as he revealed that new mechanisms would also be deployed to further fortify the exam system.

“We are adequately ready for the exam,….today is a very special day for us. We know we are doing some internal revolution this year which we were apprehensive of the workability…

“We can now say we have arrived. What we said to ourselves about six, seven years ago, we have been able to achieve today,” he said.

Oloyede revealed that the results of the Mock UTME would either be released on Thursday (today) evening or tomorrow (Friday).

Earlier, information and communications technology consultant at JAMB, Damilola Bamiro, said the exam body was also fully in touch with all the centres taking part in the examination through the JAMB’s Situation Room.

He said the Situation Room allowed for real-time interaction between the centres and JAMB to speedily resolve any issue during the exam.

The 2024 UTME will commence on April 19, 2024, and end on April 29, 2024, according to an initial announcement.