Over 260,000 candidates yesterday sat for this year’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock UTME) in 793 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country.
The JAMB Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, announced this after monitoring the exam in some centres in Abuja.
Oloyede, who expressed delight over the seamless conduct of the exercise nationwide, said the exam was meant to test the preparedness of the board for the main UTME, which will begin today across the country.
The registrar said the examination body also successfully conducted recruitment examinations for the police on Wednesday, adding that the only incidents recorded in the Mock – UTME in about four centres would be resolved.
He said: “So far so good. We are doing mock after mock. Just yesterday, we conducted recruitment for the Police Service Commission (PSC) throughout the country. That was a mock before today’s mock, and that was in 411 centres across the country. Today, we are conducting our own mock in 793 centres across the country.
“So far, we have about three or four places where they have one issue or the other, but we are trying to get over that. So, it is a good one; even those three (where there were issues), we will have a way of accommodating them, even if they go down completely. But everything is going on well. The reports we have is that we are very okay”.
Oloyede also said 1.98 million candidates registered for the main 2024 UTME, out of which over 260,000 took part in the mock exam.
