UTME 2018: JAMB to commence sale of forms in November

-JAMB to begin selling forms for 2018 UTME exams for the end of November 2017.

-The board also announced the ban of wristwatch, pens and other electronic devices in the exam hall as from 2018.

JAMB finalizes plans to begin the sale of forms for UTME 2018.

Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has announced forms for the 2018 UTME exams will go on sale before the end of November.

He also urged prospective candidates to visit the board’s website, download JAMB app, syllabus and brochures to keep themselves abreast of latest information.

He said these during an interactive session with Computer Based Test (CBT) center owners from across the country which held at Yaba College of Technology, Lagos on Wednesday.

“What we are doing here today is to appraise the registration and conduct of our past examination and we have taken some lessons from our experience.” Oloyede said.

“To this end therefore we have introduced some measures that will further add to the integrity of the registration process as well as the conduct of the examination proper.”

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“For instance, we discovered during the conduct of the last examination that some electronic devices such as pens, wristwatches and other devices were used to perpetrate examination malpractice.”

“So, for next year, we have banned the use of wristwatches and pens by candidates and other persons in the examination hall.”

“We are also going to introduce some detection devices to ensure that those who plan to cheat in the examination hall are frustrated, as we will also jam (communication network) of the centres,” he said.

“We are planning to meet with all stakeholders on November 15 and the sale of the registration document will definitely commence before the end of this month.”

“But before that, we expect candidates to go and download our app, go to our website and download the syllabus and brochure, so that they can now study the process.

“This is in order to minimise the errors that usually occurs during the registration process,” he said.

The JAMB registrar, Oloyede, also disclosed that the 72 CBT centers found guilty of aiding malpractice during the last exercise were either suspended or banned.

He disclosed that the board has already registered 617 CBT Centers nationwide, but are still considering about 60 pending applications.

“We are still considering about 60 more centres as we have their applications waiting for consideration.

“However, a total of 72 centres nationwide have earlier been delisted owing to their involvement in some infractions and they remain delisted.”