JAMB Conducts 2023 Mock-UTME In 725 Centres

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has conducted the 2023 Mock-UTME in 725 centres across the country.

As anticipated, the exercise witnessed some hitches in a few centres with some candidates unable to sit for the examination. These candidates will be rescheduled to sit for the examination at a date to be announced later at no cost to them.

JAMB’s head of public affairs and protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the board would look at all issues thrown up by the mock exercise and act accordingly for a better and enhanced examination.

The introduction of the Mock-UTME by the JAMB is aimed at providing it 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 the opportunity to try innovations that have significantly improved on the Board’s ability to deliver world-class assessment exercise.

It would be recalled 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.

He said, “The board would want to use this opportunity to apologise to all candidates for any inconvenience they might have experienced on account of this. 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 the 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 said.

The board expressed its appreciation to the candidates and their parents for their understanding and pledges to ensure that the system for which their sacrifice is made is perfected.

The gains from the exercise cannot be quantified as the Board has taken note of the challenges thrown up and had, consequently, been better placed to deliver a seamless UTME exercise come April, 2023 in line with its projections.