The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it
has so far registered 1.5 million candidates for the 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said this on
Saturday during pre-JAMB mock examinations.
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.
By Wale Odunsi
