84,000 candidates sit for rescheduled mock-UTME

Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, yesterday said about 84,000 candidates sat for the rescheduled Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) held across the country Tuesday.

Fielding questions from reporters after monitoring the examination in Abuja, he said the exercise was hitch-free and held at 387 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country, with 16 of the centres having two sessions.

Oloyede said the candidates would get their results Tuesday.

He said the glitches earlier observed at some centres as a result of deployments of innovations prompted the mock-UTME to be rescheduled.

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He said: “We should also thank the students for bearing with us when we were trial-testing. You know we gave notice that we were moving to a new level and I think by God’s grace, we’re now arriving at the next level.

“Those things we wanted to test, we’ve seen what they were and we went back and made sure everything works and it is working.”