211,000 candidates sit for JAMB mock exam, 267,000 apply — Registrar

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB,yesterday said that it could only accommodate 211, 000 out of 267, 000 candidates thatapplied to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, mock examination.

Its Registrar, Prof. Is-hak Oloyede, disclosed this in Bwari while addressing journalists after visiting some Computer Based Test, CBT, centres in Bwari and Dutse areas of the city.

The board had earlier scheduled February 26 for candidates who wish to write the mock examinations.According to Oloyede, the board reduced the number of candidates for the mock examination because it did not intend to conduct the examination for more than a day.“It is not that we cannot have more than this number but because if we are to take the examination in all the areas in a particular town, it will take three days. We can take only what a town can take, that is how far we can go,” he said.While describing the action as unfortunate, he noted that the board had apologised to those candidates that were not fortunate to be accommodatedfor the examination.

The registrar, however, assuredthat the board had put in place measures to ensure effective monitoring of candidates for the examination.