Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the total number of students to seat for JAMB to be 1,475,477. And the date for the exam is schedukes to be on the 10th of March and 21st of March 2015 in over 400 centers in the country and seven foreign countries.
The 2015 UTME,
JAMB said, marks the commencement of full-blown
Computer Based Test, in which 208 prison inmates, drawn from Kaduna and
Ikoyi prisons, and 192 visually impaired candidates will participate.
The foreign countries, where the examination will taking place
are;
- Ghana,
- Cameroon,
- Republic of Benin
- London
- Saudi Arabia
- South
Africa
- Ethiopia.
The Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. ‘Dibu Ojerinde at a
press briefing on Thursday in Abuja, however, said applications for 2015
UTME showed a slight decrease of 156,695 candidates, when compared with
that of 2014 when 1,632,172 candidates applied for the examination.
Imo State has the highest number of applications with 104,381, while Delta State comes second with 78,854 candidates.
Anambra State has a total of 77,689 candidates who applied for the examination while FCT has the lowest with 4,085.
Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states, where Boko Haram has displaced
several resident, also rank among the lowest with 15,692, 15,613 and
10,044 candidates respectively.
Ojerinde attributed the decline in the number of applications to
insecurity in some parts of the country, adding that the registration
for the CBT had also eliminated the incidence of dual or multiple
registration by candidates.
The JAMB Registrar also cited the mad rush for tertiary education
outside the shores of Nigeria as a contributory factor for the low
application by candidates this year, adding that the examination would
mark a final departure from the Paper Pencil Test and the Dual Based
Test.
He said, “Owing to the prevailing insecurity in parts of the North,
states such as Zamfara, Adamawa, Borno, Niger, Kebbi, Sokoto and Taraba
have very low patronage in terms of candidates’ applications.
“The effect of insecurity can be seen in the rate of registration,
especially in the North-East. We want to move this country forward; we
want to curb examination malpractices and we want to do it the way it is
done the world over. The President has endorsed our effort. The
beneficiaries of pencil-based examination did not want the
Computer-Based Test.”
For the visually impaired, Ojerinde explained that they would use the
Braille note Apex Computer to write the examination, stressing that
most of the candidates for the UTME had printed their e-registration
slips with which they would sit the examination.
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