The 2014/2015 UTME will take place on April 12 for the paper-based version (PPT) and May 17 for the computer-based version (CBT). Prof Dibu Ojerinde, JAMB’s registrar, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja.
He said the CBT would continue for 12 days. “In any case, we are prepared. We have 300 centres for CBT while we have 2000 centres for PPT.”
“This is the last time we are going to do PPT; it will be all CBT next year,” Ojerinde added. He also explained that the choice of CBT as the sole version was to curb examination malpractices, release results at the same time and encourage candidates to prepare better.
Furthermore, candidates would not be able to apply to more than one university for this year.
“We’ve limited options to four institutions; one university, one college of education, one polytechnic and one institute for entrepreneurship,” Ojerinde added.
“[We are doing this] because of the action of our institutions. They will call both first choice and second choice candidates for post-UTME, collect money from them. And when the second choice candidates score higher than the first choice, they will prefer the first choice candidates.”
The JAMB registrar also cautioned candidates not to register for both PPT and CBT, saying that such results would be cancelled.
He urged candidates wishing to change their school choice to have done so before registration closes, or they risk paying N1,000 as fine.
The sale of UTME forms would end on March 14 and the website for registration would close on March 25, he said.
In view of this, JAMB organised a one-day sensitisation campaign in Kaduna recently, which featured a mock CBT taken by 100 students drawn from schools in the state.
One of the students from the Federal Government College, Kaduna, Oluchi Okoli, said the CBT was better and would eliminate cheating.
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