From Fred Ezeh, Abuja
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced dates for its major activities in 2023.
JAMB, according to a statement, yesterday, approved the commencement of registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Saturday, January 14 to Tuesday, February 14, 2023.
This, it explained, does not include registration for Direct Entry (DE) application documents as the DE registration would commence from Monday, February 20 to Thursday, April 20, 2023.
It added that the board, after considering other commitments, fixed Saturday, April 29, 2023, for the conduct of the 2023 UTME, which is expected to run till Monday, May 12, 2023.
Similarly, the board also fixed Thursday, March 16, 2023 for the conduct of its optional mock-UTME. It noted that interested candidates would be required to pay N1,000 service charge for Computer Based Test (CBT) centres for the conduct of mock examination at the point of registration to prevent a situation where candidates would indicate their interest to sit the mock-UTME leading the various centres to commit human and material resources only to stay away on the day of the examination.
JAMB spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, in a statement, yesterday, confirmed the decision was taken at the end of JAMB management’s meeting, yesterday.
Fabian said with the new arrangement, candidates would indicate and confirm their interest by paying for the mock at the point of UTME registration, therefore, precluding the centres from incurring any loss whether candidates turn up or not.
He, thus advised all candidates who desire to register for the 2023 UTME to begin the process creating their respective profiles (creation of profile code) ahead of the formal commencement of the registration exercise to avoid being caught up in any ensuing bottleneck.