EXAM: JAMB fixes UTME for April 12, May 17

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has scheduled this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for April 12 and May 17.

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said  on Thursday that  paper-pencil test  would hold on April 12 while computer-based test would hold on  May 17,2014, across 2,000 centres.

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Ojerinde stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria  in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory.

According to him, the examination will be paper- pencil-based as well as computer-based.

“We are ready for the examination even now; however we will give them time until April 12.

“We are going to do the PPT on April 12 all over the country, but the CBT will start on May 17, and it will continue for 12 days.

“In any case, we are prepared; we have 300 centres for CBT while we have 2000 centres for PPT.

“This is the last time we are going to do PPT; it will be all CBT next year, we want education to move forward, one of the ways of moving it forward is to eradicate examination malpractices.

“That is our ambition and Nigeria will join the comity of nations in terms of technological development.”

Ojerinde enjoined candidates to study hard to be able to pass.

He, therefore, expressed the organisation’s resolve to eliminate examination malpractices.

The registrar explained that the choice of the CBT was to curb exam malpractices, release results at the same time and encourage candidates to prepare adequately.

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