Jamb Mock Exam date Changed and Jamb exam date has also been announced

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation has fixed Monday, 1st April, 2019 for its 2019 mock examination earlier scheduled for Saturday, 23rd March,2019. This change is due to certain circumstances beyond the Board's control.
Candidates who had indicated interest in the mock examination at the point of registration and have since printed their mock examination notification slips need not print another one.  All the details on the slips remain the same except the examination date which is now 1st April, 2019.

The Board has also scheduled to conduct  the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation examination (UTME)  from Thursday, 11th April, 2019. Candidates are to begin the printing of the 2019 UTME notification slips from Tuesday,2nd April,2019.
All candidates who registered for the 2019 UTME are to ensure that they print  their examination notification slips  before the day of the examination as no excuses would be entertained.The public should  note that the Board would not reschedule examination for any candidate.
Candidates can print their slips anywhere.
Nigerians would recall that the Board had closed the sale of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry application document on Thursday,21st February,2019. At the close of the sale and subsequently close of registration portal, it was discovered that 41,063 candidates created profile and procured either  UTME or DE ePINS but were unable to complete their registration formalities after initiating the process. In view of this consideration the Board has open the registration portal effective from Wednesday 13th March, 2019 for all candidates with either UTME or DE ePINS to complete their registration formalities. The portal  would be closed on Friday, 15th March,2019 by 12midnight.
This opportunity is for only candidates who had created profile and  procured UTME or DE ePINS before the close of registration portal as the sale of ePINS had since been closed.
Please endeavour to register before Friday midnight if you are holding any of the ePINS (UTME/DE).

Dr. Fabian Benjamin
Head of Media
JAMB

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WAEC GCE Results For 2019 1st Series Released - See Performance Statistics

The West African Examinations Council, has announced the release of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination for private candidates, 2019 – First Series This was announced by the Head of the Nigeria National Office Olu Adenipekun during a public briefing on Tuesday at the WAEC National Office in Yaba, Lagos.

It was gathered that 12,202 candidates registered for the examination out of which 11,892 candidates sat for the examination. Of the number of candidates that sat for the examination, 6,180 were male and 5,712 were female, representing 52 and 48 per cent respectively.

Interm of performance, a total of 3,102 candidates, representing 26.08 per cent, obtained credit and above in a minimum of five subjects including English Language and General Mathematics. The percentage of candidates in this category in the WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2018 – First Series was 17.5 per cent.

A further break down shows that, a total of 8,782 candidates, representing 75.15 per cent, obtained credit and above in two subjects; 7,332 candidates, representing 62.74 per cent, obtained credit and above in three subjects; 5,850 candidates, representing 50.06 per cent, obtained credit and above in four subjects; and 4,314 candidates, representing 36.28 per cent, obtained credit and above in five subjects.

About 376 candidates, representing 3.16 per cent of the total candidature for the examination, have their results withheld in connection with various reported cases of examination malpractice. The cases are being investigated and reports of the investigations will be presented to the appropriate committee of the council in due course for consideration. The committee’s decisions will be communicated to the affected candidates.

Candidates are to proceed to the official result checking portal: https://www.waecdirect.org/ to check their results.

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Date For Reprinting of 2019 JAMB Exam Slip Has Not Been Confirmed - JAMB

The spokesman of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Dr Fabian Benjamin has stated that due to the fact that the date for the 2019 UTME has not been officially confirmed, the reprinting of the 2019 exam slip will not possibly commence on March 2nd, 2019 as earlier envisaged.

He said as it is now, no date has been fixed for the main examination and there is no way anybody can print examination notification slip when the examination date, itself, has not been fixed.

He added that when the actual date for the 2019 UTME has been finally determined, the reprinting of the exam slip will commence two weeks to that date.

Dr fabian finally assured candidates and stakeholders that JAMB will soon make an official announcement on the date for the main exam and the reprinting of exam slip.

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JAMB Fixes 2019 Mock Exam March 23rd

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Saturday March 23rd, 2019 as the new date for the conduct of the 2019 UTME mock exam. The board has also directed all eligible candidates for the mock exam to commence the printing of their mock examination notification slips as from Wednesday March 6th, 2019 in order to know their venue and time for the mock exam.The actual date for the main exam is yet to be announced by the board but a source hinted that the exam has been shifted to April 16th, 2019. However, this is yet to be officially confirmed by JAMB.

In a statement by the JAMB spokesman Fabian Benjamin, 2019 UTME Candidates have been urged to guard all their details pertaining to the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME/DE) Direct Entry.

He reminded the candidates that the purpose of the mock exam is to ascertain the readiness of its system for the exam and help candidates especially those not to familiar with CBT to get themselves acquainted with it.

He debunked the rumour that that marks from the mock examination would be added to scores obtained in the main examination.

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