Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint
Admission and Matriculation Board, Prof. Is-haq
Oloyede, has emphasized on the reason the
board will be using Closed Circuit Television
Cameras for the conduct of 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination.
According to him, this is a part of the measures
aimed at preventing examination malpractice
during the UTME.
“We believe that certain things should be done.
….
For example, we are conducting the Computer-
Based Test, I’m not aware of anywhere in the
world where you do the CBT without CCTV. If
you are not caught during the examination, you
can be caught after the examination because the
whole thing will be under coverage.
He further mentioned that operators of the CBT
centres who fail to comply with the order to
install CCTV cameras prior to the examination
may not be accredited for the UTME.
He advised parents candidates against falling
victims to fraudsters as the UTME forms are not
yet on sale.
Concerning when the examination will
commence, the JAMB boss stated that he
cannot say categorically when it will commence
but it will commence sooner than later.
In his words, “I can say clearly that I don’t know
when we are going to start the sales of forms.
All we want to do is to make sure that things
that ought to be in place are in place. I cannot
tell you exactly when it will be, but I know that
sales will commence sooner than later. Why am I
saying so? For instance, we are meeting with the
heads of other examination bodies.
“We don’t want a situation where pupils will be
put under pressure to give up either West African
Senior School Certificate Examination or National
Examination Council or any other examination
whenever they are taking place simultaneously.
That is one of the things we want to avoid.
“Secondly, if we hold our examination at a time
when students are not ready, the result we get is
a high rate of failure. Our examination is a
ranking examination, not an achievement
examination. This is why we are saying that it is
not to extend the validity because the test is to
be taken just once.”

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