The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)
has released guidelines for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME) as well as fixing dates for registration of candidates and the
examination.
This is coming as JAMB disclosed the reduction of
production cost to the tune of N2 billion per annum.
Addressing critical stakeholders on the plans and
programmes for 2018 UTME and Direct Entry (DE) examinations at a meeting in
Abuja on Wednesday, JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, said the board has
fixed a two-month registration duration from November 22, 2017, to January 22,
2018, as against the one month duration for the 2017 examination.
Giving this wide duration, he said the board does
not have the intention of extending the registration period.
He however, expressed concern at the ongoing delay
experienced at the hands of publishers of the reading texts, which he promised
would be handled.
Oloyede said the examination proper has been fixed
between March 9 and 17, 2018 for the UTME, while the Mock examination which is
optional will take place between 21 and 23 January, 2018.
He said: "It is proposed that the sale of application
documents would commence on November 22 and end on January 22, 2018, spanning a
period of two months as against one month of the 2017 exercise. The only
concern is the publisher of the reading text that appears to have taken the board's
gentle approach as helplessness.
"Having examined that all logistics put in
places for a smooth exercise, the management would strictly adhere to the sale
period. Therefore, all critical stakeholders are advised to cooperate,
collaborate, support and assist the board in this direction.
"It is proposed that the Mock examination
would take place on January 22 to 24, 2018. The number of days for the
examination varies from one to three and this would depend on the number of
candidates who show interest in the Mock examination and the number of Computer
Based Test centres in the examination towns/state of candidates who express
interest..
"It is proposed that the 2018 UTME will take
place between March 9 and 17, 2018," he added.
To prevent extortion of candidates, Oloyode said
the application fee remains N5,000 which include N300 bank charges while
candidates are to pay N700 for registration at the Computer Based Centres (CBT)
accredited by the board.
According to him, “The application fees remains N5,000
just as the Reading Test is still N500. The application fee is inclusive of the
commission of N300 paid on each application to the selling point.”
The JAMB, however, noted that foreign candidates
have their fees slashed from between $120 and $100 paid last year to just $20.
He said that
"in order to streamline the application fee in tandem with application fee
for other public examinations in other countries, management has approved $20
per candidate as application fee for all foreign based candidates in any
country. The Nigerian embassies in each of the countries shall assist the board
in collating and forwarding the application forms to the board”.
To ensure the successful conduct of the examination,
the registrar said the board has put in place measure to checkmate malpractices
and fraud, to further give credibility to the examination.
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