JAMB Apologises For Poor Mock Performance; On Thursday, March 30, 2023, JAMB held the 2023 Mock-UTME in 725 locations across the country. As expected, the exercise encountered minor hiccups in a few centers, with some candidates unable to take the exam.
These applicants will be rescheduled to take the test at a later date at no additional cost. The Board would examine all issues raised by the mock exercise and take appropriate action to ensure a better and more enhanced exercise in the future.
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The introduction of the Mock-UTME by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board was aimed at providing the Board with the opportunity to assess innovations that would be used for the main examination as well as allow candidates to have hands-on experiences in the CBT environment.
The exercise, which was started more than six years ago, has provided the Board with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to test innovations that have considerably improved the Board’s ability to deliver world-class assessment exercises. It should be noted that before to the 2023 exercise, the Board had stated in a statement that it would be adding several new measures that had never been used before and would want to take the opportunity of the mock exercise to assess their functionality.
The Board would want to use this opportunity to apologize to all candidates for any inconvenience they might have experienced on account of this. This is part of a development process aimed at enhancing the Board’s efforts at improving the quality, security, and sanctity of its services and as well as using the same to herald the next phase of its transformational agenda.
The exercise also gave the Board the rare opportunity of fine-tuning this process for better results. The Board expresses its appreciation to the candidates and their parents for their understanding and pledges to ensure that the system for which their sacrifice is made is perfected.
The gains from the exercise cannot be quantified as the Board has taken note of the challenges thrown up and had, consequently, been better placed to deliver a seamless UTME exercise come April 2023 in line with its projections. The Board will continue to appeal to candidates and the general public for their understanding as it would not relent in its efforts to devise new and better ways of enhancing the quality of large-scale assessments in Nigeria.
Fabian Benjamin, Ph.D
Head, Public Affairs and Protocol
JAMB
