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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says about 1.7 million candidates registered for this year’s  Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) including 120 prison inmates who will also sit for the examination. The Registrar of the board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede , disclosed this at a news conference on Friday in Abuja. He also confirmed the examination had not been postponed and will hold on Friday, May 13 except for those that have Seven Days Adventist service. He also advised UTME candidates to always check their e-mails for further updates, noting that some candidates are fond of giving out their passwords and e-mail addresses to strangers in spite of several warnings from the board. “Candidates should be aware of fraudsters who hide under cyber cafe operators to defraud innocent children. We have caught some of them while mischievously collecting money from candidates with the help of some security officers,’’ he said. Source: Punchng

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged prospective candidates for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to crosscheck the data on their registration forms for the last time on May 6. The board’s Head of Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the call in an interview with the News Agency if Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos. The call comes ahead of the 2017 UTME scheduled for May 13 across 633 centres nationwide. NAN reports that registration of candidates for the examination was closed by the board by 12 midnight on Friday, May 5. According to Benjamin, the call for the crosschecking of data by prospective candidates was to ensure total inclusiveness. He added that the board intended to ensure that no candidate was left out during the examination due to one reason or the other. “All candidates who desire to do any change on their registration details are urged to do so today as the platform closes finally by 9 p.m. ...

Results to the recently just-concluded Mock Exam for the 2017 UTME have been released.. and it’s free to check. Follow the instructions outlined below to check your 2017 JAMB Mock Exam Result . 1. Visit the JAMB portal at www.jamb.org.ng/efacility/ . PS: Do not use MTN or GLO Network to Visit the Jamb Portal. 2. Login with your profile email and password 3. Click on “Result Notification” among the list of services and click on “UTME Examination (Mock)” . 4. Your result will be displayed to you or you would see the message “You did not seat for Mock Examination”.  

This week, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), confirmed that they will begin the sale of forms for the 2017 Unified Matriculation Tertiary Examinations. JAMB also announced some important information and dates to guide those who will be sitting for the exams.     Owing to the current controversies associated with the 2017 UTME, Here are 10 things prospective candidates must know about this year’s examinations to enable them have a smooth examination and of course the best results.... 1. The forms will be on sale for only one month. It begins on March 20 and ends April 19. 2. JAMB application forms will be sold for N5,500. The registration package includes registration fees, reading text, syllabus and brochure. 3. The registration portal will be closed on Saturday, April 22, 2017. 4. For Direct Entry candidates, the application forms will be on sale from Sunday, April 23, 2017. 5. JAMB will be written between May 6 and Ma...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has clarified its position on candidates awaiting results being able to write admission examinations into tertiary institutions. The examination body had initially barred candidates without their Ordinary Level results from sitting for the Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board’s initial stand was based on the fact that many institutions have admitted candidates on merit only for them to discover that such candidates do not have qualified O’levels results or the right combination for admission. Such schools had to delete and start the process all over again, thereby denying other qualified candidates the opportunities for admissions, JAMB said initially. However, JAMB on Thursday said candidates awaiting results are eligible to register and sit for the UTME exams. JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, who confirmed this to PREMIUM TIMES, however said that any candidate who fails to upload...

Yesterday, Monday March 13, The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board made an announcement on its plans for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. They also revealed the date that the forms will begin sale. Through their twitter handle @JAMBHQ, the board said that sale of forms would begin as from Monday March 20 and it will span through to April 19 when sales will finally end. The examination will hold between May 6 and 20.