JAMB to Conduct Mock Test February 26, Main Exam March 9 to 17 

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is set to conduct 2018 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which will hold on February 26 while the main exam still to hold march 9 to 17 across the country. This was made known in an interview with the board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin in Lagos.
According to him, a total of 245,753 of the 1,652,795 candidates that registered for this year’s UTME are expected to write the test.
“We are happy to announce to the public that the board has concluded arrangement for the conduct of the mock UTME, slated for Monday, February 26.
“This is irrespective of the ongoing strike embarked upon by members of non-academic unions of federal universities nationwide.
“Candidates will soon be informed on when to print notifications for the examination and in addition, notifications will be sent through e-mails and text messages on the schedules of their examination,” Benjamin said.
“The 2018 exercise sold a total of 1, 966,918 candidate generating profiles.
“In previous examinations, this number of candidates would have paid for the forms but through our efficient and effective system of ensuring that candidates do not waste resources, we decided to introduce the profile generating regime.
“By this method, candidates will first have to generate personal profiles before proceeding to obtain pins, in between which they are open to deciding whether to go ahead to pay for the registration documents or otherwise,” Benjamin explained.