JAMB Paper Pencil
Test (PPT) date for 2014 has been changed from 5th to 12th April, 2014 (new
date). According to the information we got, only the 2014 JAMB PPT test is
affected.
The Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have changed the schedule for 2014
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The change
affected only the date for the regular Paper Pencil Test (PPT) alternative
of the exam which has now been moved from April 5th, to April 12th, 2014.
The Exam Venues remain the same.
Candidates are
therefore advised to reprint their JAMB photo card to confirm this change in
date.
THE Joint
Admissions and Matriculation Board has scheduled this year’s Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination for April 12 and May 17.
The Registrar of
JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said on Thursday that paper-pencil test would hold
on April 12 while computer-based test would hold on May 17,2014, across 2,000
centres.
Ojerinde stated
this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Bwari, Federal
Capital Territory.
According to him,
the examination will be paper- pencil-based as well as computer-based.
“We are ready for
the examination even now; however we will give them time until April 12.
“We are going to
do the PPT on April 12 all over the country, but the CBT will start on May 17,
and it will continue for 12 days.
“In any case, we
are prepared; we have 300 centres for CBT while we have 2000 centres for PPT.
“This is the last
time we are going to do PPT; it will be all CBT next year, we want education to
move forward, one of the ways of moving it forward is to eradicate examination
malpractices.
“That is our
ambition and Nigeria will join the comity of nations in terms of technological
development.”
Ojerinde enjoined
candidates to study hard to be able to pass.
He, therefore,
expressed the organisation’s resolve to eliminate examination malpractices.
The registrar
explained that the choice of the CBT was to curb exam malpractices, release
results at the same time and encourage candidates to prepare adequately.
“Our experience
last year showed that the CBT candidates passed better than the PPT ones; there
was no single examination malpractice, there was no missing result and answer
script,” he said.
The registrar said
further that the reasons for limiting the choice of candidates to one
university was the outcome of a meeting held sometime at the National
Universities Commission.
He commended the
decision as it would help to tackle problems about cost and delay experienced
by candidates seeking admission through post-JAMB tests.
He said that
candidates were limited to four institutions as against six to achieve the
target goal.
“We limited them
to four institutions; one university, one College of education, one polytechnic
and one Institute for entrepreneurship, because of the actions of our
institutions.
“They will call
both first and second choice candidates for Post UTME, collect money from them
and when the second choice candidate even scores higher than the first choice;
they will prefer first choice candidates.
“So, we are saying
‘take a university, let that university finish’.
“When it finishes,
we will send the rest of the material to the Polytechnic, instead of waiting
for two Universities.
“Let us make it
one choice. It also will reduce cost of candidates going from one institution
to another, doing post UTME.
He cautioned
candidates against registering for both PPT and CBT; saying “it is not possible
for somebody to register for the two, you register for only one.”
The registrar,
however, warned that there would be cancellation of registration for anyone
caught registering for both exams.
He urged
candidates wishing to change their choices of university, to do so on or before
the close of the registration or stand the risk of paying the sum of N1,000 as
fine.
Ojerinde said that
the sale of UTME form would end on March 14, adding that sites would close on
March 25.
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