JAMB computer-based UTME begins Tuesday. Written by Eno-Abasi Sunday and Ujunwa Atueyi - ngrguardiannews.com

THE 2015 Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)-organised Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) commences Tuesday in 400 centres nationwide with over 1.47 million candidates writing the examination. The maiden wholly Computer-Based Test (CBT), which starts Tuesday, March 10, 2015 and runs through Saturday, March 21, will be written in Nigeria and seven foreign countries, namely Ghana, Cameroun, Republic of Benin, Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Ethiopia. The examination, which has witnessed a decrease of about 156, 695 in the number of applicants compared to that of 2014, also has 208 jailbirds vying for slots in tertiary institutions. Twenty-eight of the prisoners are quartered at Ikoyi Prisons, Lagos. Imo State has the highest number of applicants with 104,381 and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has the lowest with just 4,085. However, not all candidates that registered for the examination would write same owing to logistical lapses on the part of the organisers and the inability of some of the applicants to stick to set guidelines. Read More