84,000 candidates sit for rescheduled Mock -UTME

By Maryam Abeeb

About 84,000 candidates on Tuesday sat for the rescheduled Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) which was held across the country.
Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who stated this while speaking to newsmen after monitoring the exam in Abuja, expressed delight over the hitch-free exercise.
He commended candidates for showing understanding over the board’s decision to reschedule the examination for Tuesday (today) adding that the glitches earlier observed in the Mock-UTME in some centres that prompted it to be rescheduled was as a result of deployments of innovations .
Oloyede stated that the Mock-UTME was held in 387 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country, with 16 of the centres having two sessions, adding that the results of the exam would be out today.
On his part, JAMB’s Director of Information Technology Services (ITS), Fabian Okoro, who was on ground at the control room domiciled in the exam body’s headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, said real time information from all CBT centres revealed that the exam was conducted smoothly.
During a visit to some of the CBT centres in Abuja which include the one in Total Child Model College, Dutse, JAMB CBT Centre, Kogo, among others, candidates were seen taking part in the exam in an orderly manner.
One of the candidates, Luka Mercy, commended JAMB for ensuring that the mock exam went on as planned without any issue.
“The JAMB (exam) was actually a good and successful one, no problem at all, no worries. The computer did not go off and I finished successfully and I really enjoyed the questions that were set,” she said.