06/03/2019
JAMB sets March 23 for Mock Exam
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
(JAMB) has slated Saturday, 23rd March 2019 for
the conduct of the 2019 Mock exercise.
JAMB’s Head, Public Affairs, Dr Fabian Benjamin,
who made this known in a statement on Monday,
urged candidates to begin the printing of their Mock
Examination Notification slips from Wednesday
6thMarch 2019.
The rest of the statement reads: “Mock examination
was introduced in 2017 to give candidates the
opportunity to familiarize themselves with the
conduct of Computer Based Test, particularly,
candidates who are not conversant with the use of
computers. The Board would not want any
candidate to be at a disadvantage position, hence
the introduction of mock examination and other
processes that would help the candidates during
examination. The Board equally introduced the nine
(9) keys without a mouse for candidates to use the
computer with ease.
The Board also uses the mock exercise to ascertain
the readiness of its system and to appraise the
candidates’ preparedness for the main examination
This clarification becomes necessary because of
insinuations from some quarters that marks from
the mock examination would be added to scores
obtained in the main examination.
The Board enjoined all candidates to jealously guard
all their details pertaining to the 2019 Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME/DE)
Direct Entry.
The public should therefore note that the mock
examination as its name implies, would not be used
for any assessment process.
This year’s exercise is the third in the series of
mock examinations conducted by the Board under
the leadership of Prof. Is-haq Oloyede.
