The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has said a total of 1,761,338 candidates that applied for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), will commence examinations today.
The examination, which is computer-based, will be conducted in 645 centres approved by JAMB nationwide and will last for nine days (from May 6 to May 14, 2022).
JAMB spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin disclosed the figure on late Thursday.
Recall that last year, the board registered 1,338,687 candidates for the UTME and 75,328 for direct entry.
Earlier, the board warned candidates against bringing electronic gadgets and other unauthorised materials like eyeglasses (unless recommended); USB, fez caps, calculator, tape recorder, camera, wristwatches, bangles, and cell phones, among others, into the examination hall. It said these items remained banned in the examination hall during the conduct of the UTME.
On arrival at examination venues, the examination body admonished candidates to arrive at the venues of their examination one hour before its commencement. Benjamin said this would afford the candidates the opportunity to go through biometric verification prior to their admittance into the examination hall.
The JAMB spokesperson advised candidates to strictly adhere to the examination schedule as stated in their notification slips, which would be made available to them in due course and would feature the venue, scheduled date, session and time of the examination.
“All candidates are required to be seated only in the allotted seats assigned to them and should follow the instructions as issued out to them by the examination officials and should not attempt to leave the examination hall until one hour after the commencement of the examination,” he said.
