UTME: JAMB to scrutinize eye grasses worn by candidates

AHEAD of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME,slated to hold between March 6 and 17,the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said 16 items including eye glasses and wrist watches won’t be allowed by candidates inside examination halls.
The board said eye grasses worn by students on medical grounds would be thoroughly scrutinized by invigilators to ensure they were for ulterior motives.

This was disclosed by the Secretary of JAMB UTME Monitoring Groups, Ngozi Egbuna, in a memo to some civil society groups which will participate in the monitoring of the examination.The prohibited items,accordingto the memo, are wrist watches, pen/biro, mobile phones or similar electronic devices, spy reading glasses which should be scrutinised, calculators or similar electronic devices, USB, CD, hard disks and/or similar storage devices.

Others are books or any reading/writing material, cameras, recorders, microphones, ear pieces, ink/pen readers, smart lenses, smart rings/jewellery, smart buttons and Bluetooth devices.