BY: News Peddlers
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has approved the start of registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which will take place from January 14 to February 14, 2023.
JAMB has also set March 16, 2023 as the date for its optional mock-UTME.
Dr Fabian Benjamin, the examination body's spokesperson, announced this in a statement on Tuesday.
Benjamin stated that JAMB did not include registration for Direct Entry (DE) application documents, noting that DE registration would begin in February 2023 and run through April 2023.
He stated that JAMB has set April 29, 2023, for the conduct of the 2023 UTME, which is expected to end on May 12, 2023, after considering its other commitments.
During registration, he stated that candidates would be required to pay a N1000 service charge for CBT centres to conduct mock examinations.
"This is to prevent a situation where candidates would indicate their interest to sit the mock-UTME leading the various centres to commit human and material resources only for them to stay away on the day of the examination.
"With the new arrangement, candidates indicate their interest by paying for the mock at the point of UTME registration, therefore, precluding the centres from incurring any loss whether candidates turn up or not.
"The board advises all candidates who want to register for the 2023 UTME to immediately begin creating their respective profiles (creation of profile code) ahead of the formal start of the registration exercise to avoid being caught in any ensuing bottleneck," the JAMB spokesperson added.