84,000 candidates sat for rescheduled Mock-UTME –JAMB
By Uji A. iliyasu
Abuja
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, said 84,000 candidates sat for the rescheduled Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) in 2023.
Oloyode who disclosed this while fielding questions from newsmen after monitoring the exam in Abuja, expressed delight over the hitch-free exercise.
While commending candidates for showing understanding over the board’s decision to reschedule the examination for Tuesday (today), Oloyede said the glitches earlier observed in the test in some centres that prompted it to be rescheduled was as a result of deployment of innovations.
“We should also thank the students for bearing with us when we were trial-testing. You know we gave a notice that we were moving to a new level and I think by God’s grace, we are now arriving at the next level.
“Those things we wanted to test, we have seen what they were and we went back and made sure everything works and it is working.
“We will still be focused on issues relating to cable that you called network in the centre, there may be few centres that we may have one problem or the other but we are going to get over that.
” For example, we have decided all those with zero thin client (computers that have no CPU identity but rely on central server and share same IP address) will have to change if they must continue on our network,” Oloyode said.
The JAMB registrar said the Mock-UTME took place in 387 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country, with 16 of the centres having two sessions.
He added that the results of the test would be out today.
“They will get their results today, of course the results will be out today, and how many of them? 84,000.”
Also, JAMB’s Director of Information Technology Services (ITS), Fabian Okoro, speaking from the situation room at the headquarters, said real time information from all CBT centres revealed that the exam went seamlessly.
He said, “When we did the first exam, we were testing new features and we observed lapses, we have to go back to the drawing board and make sure they are corrected.
” You can see from the control room here, there are less calls coming in, that shows the exam is moving smoothly and peacefully in all the centres across the country.”
The mock exam was designed for the purpose of testing JAMB’s preparedness and that of its partners for UTME, which gives prospective candidates the opportunity to have hands-on experience of the CBT test environment.