JAMB: 1.4 million candidates register for 2020 UTME in 3 weeks
Feb 11, 2020
JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said a total of 1,434,632 candidates have so far registered for its ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME and Direct Entry.
The bulletin read in part, “The 2020 UTME/ Direct Entry registration is now 1,434,632, with seven days to go. The board has concluded arrangements for the conduct of the February 18 Mock Examination. The mock is at no cost to candidates, except the N600 payable to the private centre owners for candidates posted to centres not owned by JAMB.
“Candidates can print their mock examination slips, which are available online, to know when and where to take the examination. The mock examination, which is voluntary, is an initiative to prepare candidates for the main UTME and it helps candidates to be in tune with the rudiments of a CBT examination.
“Therefore, results from the mock examination will not be added or have any effect on the main examination. The board wishes to state that the era of regularisation or condoning illegal admissions is over.â€
It stated: “The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has sounded a note of warning to its licensed CBT centres which are acting contrary to the terms of their agreement by turning away candidates who had obtained their ePins elsewhere.
“This warning became necessary following a series of complaints received by the board that some centres are turning away candidates simply because they did not obtain their ePins from such centres.â€
“The board is also in possession of credible reports regarding the activities of some of the centres vending ePINS and collecting the fee of the PINS along with the service charge for the registration (N4,700) thereby depriving the candidates the right to choose where to go for registration. Such candidates are, therefore, forced to register with such centres irrespective of their convenience. Such candidates are then tied down unnecessarily to the centres.
“The most ignoble of the fraudulent practice occurs when some centres dictate what a candidate should use as a password they keep to gain access to candidate’s data in order to perpetrate unwholesome acts.
“Some centres have even constituted themselves into a cartel collecting commission from other centres and some vending agents as protection money.
‘’Such a scenario was enacted in Kwara State, where an innocent agent of a sales outlet was falsely accused of selling ePINS above the stipulated price and was arrested by security agents who had to release him when investigation proved the contrary.
“The board is, therefore, concerned about these ignoble acts which are contrary to the terms of operations.
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