2024 UTME: OF THE 1.98 MILLION REGISTERED CANDIDATES, MORE THAN 260,000 TAKE THE MOCK EXAM.

Babatunji Wusu –

At least 260,000 candidates took part in this year’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock UTME) on Thursday, distributed among 793 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centers around the country.

After taking the mock exam at multiple locations in Abuja, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, revealed this.

Out of the 1.98 million candidates who registered for the main 2024 UTME, more than 260,000 took the mock exam, according to the JAMB chairman.

Oloyede, who expressed delight at the exercise’s flawless nationwide execution, emphasized that it served as a readiness test for the main UTME, which is scheduled to start on April 19, 2024.

He said that the Nigerian Police recruitment exam was delivered by the exam authority on Wednesday and that the little incidents that occurred during the mock UTME in around four centers would be rectified.

Oloyede said, “So far, so good. We are doing mock after mock. Just yesterday, we conducted recruitment for the Police Service Commission 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 are issues), we will have a way of accomodating them even if they go down completely. But everything is going on well and the reports we have, is that we are very okay.

“Over 260,000 candidates are sitting for the (mock) exam but the real exam we have 1.98 million, because we don’t want to turn our mock to another exam that is why we did not allow more than that number to register for the mock exam, which is just to test the system.”

Vanguard reports that Oloyede declared JAMB fully prepared for the main UTME, expressing confidence in the exam’s seamless administration and outlining preparations to put new safeguards in place for it.

After six or seven years, he expressed delight with the realization of the internal change within JAMB and applauded it.

Oloyede further declared that the Mock UTME results would be made public on Friday or Thursday night.