Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced a slash in the duration of their Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) starting this year. If you or your siblings/friend is sitting for the UTME exam this year, you get only 2 hours to answer all the questions instead of the usual three hours.
The educational body said the reduction of hours was in line with international best standards and practices where candidates aren’t kept in examinations such as UTME for more than two hours.
The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, made the announcement during the opening ceremony of a strategic planning retreat on the monitoring, supervision, and evaluation of 2017 UTME with the theme: “Inclusiveness and sensitisation of key external actors.”
He stated that “We are going to reduce the duration of the examination for this year’s UTME. You cannot keep children of this age for three hours. For their age, the maximum time you can keep them is two hours. So, we are considering the reduction in the time they spend because once it is more than two hours you can’t expect that they will retain their presence of mind.”
The UTME which is scheduled to hold on the 20th of May has had over 240,000 candidates register for the exam since the sale of forms began a little over a week ago.
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Source: Campus Gist and DailyMailNG
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