The 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME billed to commence on Monday, March 9 has been greeted with confusion and irregularities, as candidates struggle to access the website of JAMB to print examination slips without a success.
Complaints from candidates revealed that they were subjected to pay extra charges of N100 to check their examination centres at JAMB office. Just as they also alleged to have paid N700 to register for the exams earlier.
While JAMB stated that examination commences on 9th March, many candidates, however complained of being confused about the different examination dates in their slips.
On Monday, over 1.4 million students who registered for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, will sit for the examination beginning 9th March.
Candidates for the first time in the past three years, will compulsorily write the tertiary examinations via Computer-Based Test, CBT, without options of the Paper-Pencil Testing, PPT, or the Dual-Based Testing, DBT.
The examination which will commence on Monday, according to JAMB, will run for 10 days, leaving candidates to jostle for the 800,000 admission slots in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions.
Although candidates have been informed since 2013 that from 2015, those writing the examination will no longer have the paper-pencil or dual-based testing options but just computer-based testing, it seems many of the candidates are yet to come to the reality of this development.
