This year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination will begin on February 29, the
authorities of the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board have announced.
Over one million candidates will sit for
examination, which the board said, would last for
seven days.
JAMB’s Head of Public Relations, Dr. Fabian
Benjamin, who confirmed this in an interview
with one of our correspondents on Tuesday,
added the board would use about 500 Internet-
complaint centres in the country for the
Computer-based Test.
The examination, he added, would hold in seven
other centres outside Nigeria.
According to him, the centres are in the United
Kingdom, Ghana, Cameroon, Republic of Benin,
Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Ethiopia.
The board, earlier, in a statement, on Tuesday,
urged candidates to print their examination
notification from February 18, noting that it had
completed arrangements for a smooth conduct
of the test.
It added, “Candidates are urged to print their
examination notification from Thursday, February
18, 2016 for the schedules of their examination.
The notification contains their date, time of
examination and venue. Candidates are to
adhere strictly by these schedules, as there will
be no rescheduling of any examination if a
candidate misses his/her date or time of
examination.”
“They are to be in their various centres 30
minutes before their time. Again candidates are
advised to check their schedules properly as
JAMB will not condone any excuse in the event
of candidate missing his or her time and date of
examination.
“Candidates are to also note that they can visit
JAMB accredited Computer-Based Centre or any
cybercafé to print their slip or any place of their
choice. It could be done at their homes.”
In the 2015 UTME, no fewer than 1.5million
candidates sat for the examination in about 400
centres.
The exercise, which experienced initial technical
challenges, lasted for 10 days.
SOURCE: http://www.punchng.com/jamb-begins-
utme-feb-29/
