UTME 2018: JAMB To Direct Mock Test Next Week.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) yesterday said the 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would now hang on February 26.

The board's Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this in a meeting with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

As indicated by him, a sum of 245,753 of the 1,652,795 hopefuls that enlisted during the current year's UTME are relied upon to compose the test.

“We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26.

“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of non-academic  unions of federal universities nationwide.

“Candidates will soon be informed on when to print notifications for the examination and in addition, notifications will be sent through e-mails and text messages on the schedules of their examination,” Benjamin stated.

He clarified that the examination was required to be without hitch on the grounds that the board had effectively decreased frequencies of breaking down of PCs by electronically incorporating the frameworks to see their usefulness and viability through connection tests.

“What this means is that, at the end of the exercise, whatever system that is not seen will not be used for the mock examination.

“The 2018 exercise sold a total of 1, 966,918 candidate generating profiles.

“In previous examinations, this number of candidates would have paid for the forms but through our efficient and effective system of ensuring that candidates do not waste resources, we decided to introduce the profile generating regime.

“By this method, candidates will first have to   generate personal profiles before proceeding to obtain pins, in between which they are open to deciding whether to go ahead to pay for the registration documents or otherwise,”.

The fundamental UTME is relied upon to hold across the nation from March 9 to March 17 2018.