2018 UTME: JAMB to conduct mock test Feb 26
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will hold on February 26.
JAMB’s Head, Media and Information, Mr Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this in Lagos on Sunday, also disclosed that a total of 245,753 out of the 1,652,795 candidates that registered for this year’s UTME are expected to write the test.
He said “We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26.
“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of the non-academic unions of federal universities nationwide.
“Candidates will soon be informed on when to print notifications for the examination and in addition, notifications will be sent through e-mails and text messages on the schedules of their examination,”.
He further added that the examination was expected to be hitch free as the board had successfully reduced incidences of malfunctioning of computers by electronically integrating the systems to see their functionality and effectiveness through link tests.
He said, “What this means is that, at the end of the exercise, whatever system that is not seen will not be used for the mock examination. The 2018 exercise sold a total of 1, 966,918 candidate generating profile
The conduct of this year’s UTME registration and admission exercise into universities and other tertiary institutions have been overshadowed by the ongoing industrial action embarked upon by federal varsity workers under the aegis of Joint Action Committee, JAC
