The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has confirmed that candidates which registered for the 2017 computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), would take mock tests tomorrow, April 8.
The JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede who made the announcement on Thursday said the mock exams which would take place nationwide, were meant to prepare candidates for the real exams and that only candidates that paid for the mock test are eligible to sit for it.
Oloyede also stated that the different challenges being faced by candidates when the UTME registration started, has been resolved, adding that about one million UTME candidates were registered as at yesterday.
Earlier in the week, the JAMB Registrar said the board’s target, was to register 1.4 million candidates for the UTME in 2017.
It will be recalled that prospective JAMB candidates, especially those in Makurdi has lamented over the tedious process of registering result in violent protests.