The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has said it does not choose examination towns for candidates during registration for the conduct of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, made this clarification during his meeting with the State Commissioners of Education held in Abuja recently.According to the Registrar, JAMB does not arbitrarily impose nor transfer candidates to examination towns other than the ones they selected.
In his explanation to the participants, Prof. Oloyede explained that an examination town is a group of at least four examination centres from which candidates are to choose, while the Board, through its automated system, would randomly distributes them to any of the component centres in that examination town.
This, he stated, was to avoid the practice of warehousing the candidates by some unscrupulous centres, prevent collusion and other unwholesome practices.Furthermore, he disclosed that candidates’ choice of examination town might be based on proximity, convenience, and accessibility.
However, the Registrar explained that in view of the extant security challenges in some parts of the country, stand alone centres could be considered for the safety of the candidates and examination officials but noted that such a measure could compromise the integrity of the examination if not sufficiently monitored.
He, therefore, charged States bedeviled by insecurity to put in place necessary measures to tackle the menace with a view to ensuring a hitch-free examination.
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