The
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has stated that
candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,
UTME, would from this year onwards spend two hours instead of the three
hours that used to be the case.This was disclosed in Kaduna on Wednesday by the JAMB Registrar,
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, during the opening ceremony of a strategic
planning retreat on the monitoring, supervision and evaluation of 2017
UTME with the theme: “Inclusiveness and sensitisation of key external
actors”.He explained that the reduction of hours was in line with
international best standards and practices where no candidate is kept in
an examination such as UTME for more than two hours.Advertisement“We are going to reduce the duration of the examination for this
year’s UTME. You cannot keep children of this age for three hours. For
their age, the maximum time you can keep them is two hours. So, we are
considering the reduction in the time they spend because once it is more
than two hours you can’t expect that they will retain their presence of
mind,” the board’s chief executive said.He further disclosed that a total of 240,000 candidates have so far
registered for the examination which has been scheduled for May 20,
barely one week after the commencement of the sale of forms which is
expected to end on April 22.Oloyede added that out of 13 commercial banks and the Nigeria Postal
Service that have signified interest in the sales of the admission
forms, only nine have paid for the number of application documents they
required in the first instance.
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