Kola Alhassan
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has announced a hike in the service charge for this year’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB disclosed that the service charge has been increased from N600 to N1000 following the high cost of diesel.
“The candidates who indicated their interest to take the examination are to pay the N1000 at their respective centres for the use of the private facilities deployed for the examination.
“However, candidates assigned to JAMB owned centres would not be required to pay for the use of the centres.
“Much as the Board would like to keep the cost at a minimum, the prevailing high cost of diesel and other consumables has necessitated the increase from N600 to N1,000 to enable the CBT centres to provide the needed infrastructure, as partners of the Board, to host the examination which is scheduled to hold on Saturday, 9th April 2022.
“The Board has thought through this increase and resolved that instead of cancelling the mock-UTME, which introduction has improved candidates’ confidence in sitting the examination owing to the high cost of diesel, it is better to increase the service charge to make the exercise worthwhile to participating centres,” JAMB said in its weekly bulletin.
The board said the examination would be conducted freely at its centres, adding that candidates desirous of sitting for the exam, would have to pay N1,000 to their Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres as a service charge.
JAMB noted that the mock examination is to ensure candidates familiarise themselves with the CBT environment.
It also directed candidates who had registered for the Mock-UTME to proceed to print their mock examination notification slip.
“The slip can be printed anywhere at the candidates’ convenience by visiting https://www.jamb.gov.ng.
“The notification slip contains the venue (centre) the candidates would sit for the examination, the time and date of the examination and other necessary instructions,” the board said.
