The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede says all candidates who registered for the 2023 Mock Examination will sit for the exam.
Prof. Oloyede also said that JAMB would reschedule the Mock exam to hold on Friday 31st of March and Saturday 1st of April, for some candidates who were unable to sit for theirs on Thursday as earlier scheduled.
He made these known in a telephone interview with Voice of Nigeria while responding to issues of technical glitches recorded in some centres where candidates sat for the 2023 Jamb mock exams.
According to Professor Oloyede, “the board expected specific challenges following the test of its facilities for the main unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations scheduled to hold on 29th of April.”
He acknowledged the technical glitches faced by candidates who sat for mock exams on Thursday, saying “the examination was held to test specific facilities of the board in preparation for the main examinations.”
“We are aware of all those things and we are monitoring. That is why it is a mock, we held it to test specific facilities of the board on a large scale in preparation for main exams.
“What is important is that all candidates who registered for the examination will be able to sit for their mock, those who were not able to write today ( Thursday), we will reschedule them for Friday and Saturday,” the JAMB Registrar explained.
At Junior Secondary School Jikwoyi, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, where Voice of Nigeria monitored the mock examination, one of the students, Blossom Nwanguma, said she experienced technical hitches with the computer system she used and this delayed her scheduled starting time.
She said; “the system went off just before I started my English language exam and it occurred thrice although I was still able to finish within time.”
Voice of Nigeria also observed at the Junior Secondary School that some computers were malfunctioning during the exams but technicians were able to fix some of them.
The Computer Based Test exams started early at the stipulated time of 7 am, local time, for the first batch & 9 am respectively.
In another Center, Aunt Alice Secondary School Royal Midland One man Village Nasarawa State, the mock examinations did not hold due to technical glitches with the computers.
VON reports that candidates were moved to another centre for their examination at Aunt Alice Secondary school Royal Midland.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had announced that it would examine 176,408 candidates in the 2023 Mock examination billed for Thursday, March 30.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
