Important information to all JAMB aspirants
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, on Wednesday said the board may reduce the timeline for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) from three hours to two hours.
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We want to use this medium to voice it out to all our readers who are incidentally jamb aspirant for the year 2017 UTME university entrance examination. We want to advise you to get to your toes as this year’s jamb won’t be a child’s play. The whole pattern about jamb has changed this year. Even the exam time may change from 3 hours to 2hours according to the jamb registrar – source.
So if you have in mind to pass this 2017 UTME you need to go back to your book and jamb pre-test that is the mock test should not be an option as that will really put you informed as to our the main exam will look.
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He further stated that question papers will be uploaded five minutes to the examinations in order to check malpractice and questions leakage.
He made this known during the Strategic Planning retreat on Supervision and Evaluation of 2017 UTME examinations.
He said: “As for the 2017 UTME, it is likely we reduce the duration of the examinations. We are looking at two hours for the examinations instead of the present three-hour timeline. This is in line with international best practices.
“As for the candidates, for their age, the maximum time they can sit for examinations is two hours. Even in terms of international standard, for primary school pupils, the maximum time for examinations is between 45 minutes and one hour.”
He said JAMB has embraced new technology which will make the UTME comfortable to write by students in a privileged environment and those in rural areas.
He equally confirmed that about 300,000 candidates might sit for the mock UTME examinations on April 8 which will be used to test run its new technology to make its examinations easier for students.
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