JAMB reschedules MOCK-UTME in some centres over hitches

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Thursday, 30th March, 2023, conducted the 2023 Mock-UTME in 725 centres across the nation.

The Head Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB Dr Fabian Benjamin in a statement said, as previously anticipated, the exercise recorded some hitches in a few centres as some candidates were unable to sit for the examination.

“These candidates will be rescheduled to sit the examination at a date to be announced later at no cost to them ,” he said .

He said the Board would look at all issues thrown up by the mock exercise and act accordingly for a better and enhanced exercise.

According to the statement, the introduction of the Mock-UTME by JAMB was aimed at providing the Board with the opportunity to assess innovations that would be used for the main examination as well as allow candidates to have hands-on experiences on the CBT environment.

“The exercise, which was introduced over six years ago, has availed the Board a unique opportunity to trial innovations that have significantly improved on the Board’s ability to deliver world-class assessment exercise, ” Fabian said.

Recall that before the conduct of the 2023 exercise, the Board had, in a statement, disclosed that it would be introducing some new measures that had never been used before and would want to use the opportunity of the mock exercise to assess their functionality.

The Board however apologised to all candidates for any inconvenience they might have experienced on account of this, saying, this is part of a development process aimed at enhancing the Board’s efforts at improving the quality, security and sanctity of its services and as well as using same to herald the next phase of its transformational agenda.

The exercise also gave the Board the rare opportunity of fine-tuning this process for better results, he added.