The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday said it had put necessary machinery in motion to conduct the 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Notice of the arrangements is contained in a statement issued by the Board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made available in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
reports that JAMB is responsible for the conduct of the UTME for
admission into the nation’s public and private tertiary institutions.
Benjamin stated that the all Computer Based Test (CBT) mode examination would be held in more than 400 centres within and outside Nigeria.
He added that “JAMB has approved more
centres in order to give Nigerians the best computer based test ever
conducted in a large scale by any public examination body. The Board
insisted that these centres must meet best global requirements.”
“Some of the requirements are steady
power supply, minimum of 200 computers, including Uninterrupted Power
Supply (UPS), accessible road, security must be guaranteed and the hall
must have a waiting room. This year, there are also some innovations
which will ensure that candidates write the examination under best
atmosphere.’’
The Board also stated that the sale of application documents for the examination would close on Friday, Jan. 29.
According to the statement, the website
will subsequently be shut on Friday, Feb. 5. The examination will be
conducted between end of February and March. It did not specify the
exact date of commencement. The Board noted that it would continue to
introduce new measures to ensure that it remained on top in the area of
assessment and measurement. The Board was currently concerned with
restoring the lost glory of the country’s education system.
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