2018 UTME Examination will occur between March 9 and 17: J

2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will occur between March 9 and 17, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.

The examination, as indicated by JAMB, is to be done with mock examination, which likewise will take place at first week of February. Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, while revealing this on Tuesday, during the close meeting held with partners, said the most examination charged to occur between January 22 and 24 was moved to the new dates, crediting the change the continuous modern activity by state public universities of non teaching staff.

Oloyede, who spoke at the gathering theme:"Strategic planning on the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation", stated: "We can't get to our CBT centres in light of the fact that a large portion of them are in the universities and non teaching staff are on strike.

" He additionally uncovered that 10 percent of prospective candidates during the current year's UTME have bought and enlisted for the examination.

 As per him, an aggregate number of candidate that have enrolled was around 283,319. He utilized the opportunity to caution applicants against prohibited items during the examination exercises saying any candidate who fall prey to the law would have themselves to blame.

The forbiddance of materials, he stated, was pertinent to applicants, supervisors and examiner., including, " candidate examiners, invigilators will be permitted to enter the examination corridor with wrist watches, pencils aside from HB pencils and cameras."