UTME: Over 1 Million Candidates Have Registered -Ojerinde

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Registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has disclosed that over one million candidates have registered for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), with about half that number expected to further register.Ojerinde made this known on Saturday, at a press conference in Lagos, while outlining the achievements of the board, especially the e-testing method that will debut this year.

According to Ojerinde, JAMB had secured 77 centres where the Computer-Based Testing (CBT) would be held. Accoring to him, the CBT was not compulsory, as every candidate would have the opportunity to choose either the paper-pencil testing (PPT) or the dual-based testing (DBT), where candidates would read the question on the computer and answer on the paper with pencil.

JAMB introduces three options for 2013 UTME

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Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has introduced three options for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates.

Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, Registrar of JAMB, said this in Bwari, Abuja, on Wednesday when the House of Representatives Committee on Education visited him on an

oversight function.

Ojerinde listed the options as Paper and Pencil Testing (PPT), Dibu Based Test, where questions would be presented on computers and answers would be on paper and Computer Based Testing (CBT) where both questions and answers would be done on computer.

Ojerinde stated that candidates were at liberty to choose one of the three options in the 2013 UTME.

The registrar said that the most advantageous part of the CBT was that candidates would get their scores few minutes after writing the examination on their GSM cell phones.

“The internet age has come to stay with us hence as actors in the new age, you cannot afford to stay on the fence, you must be prepared to join the train or else you are left behind,” Dibu said.

He urged candidates to study hard for the 2013 UTME, adding that consistent hard work was the panacea to success in any examination.

Earlier, the Chairman of the House Committee on Education, Ms. Rose Oko, said the members were on a visit to the board because of the importance of education to the society.

“The examination process is very key and strategic in education as well as the sanctity of the examination,” she stressed.

Oko commended the board for its quick release of the 2012 UTME results and urged it to sustain the tempo.

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