
JAMB has announced its application forms for the 2015
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME),
which is now available nationwide for prospective
candidates, reaffirming that the examination will be on
This was disclosed recently when Nigerian Pilot called on
the Spokesperson of the Board, Mr. Fabian Benjamin.
He said the registration period will last between Monday
September 15, 2014 and Thursday January 15, 2015, while
the website closes Monday January 19, 2015.
He also noted that in addition to the registration fee,
candidates will be expected to pay additional N500 for a
copy of a newly introduced textbook, ‘The Last Days at
Forcados High School’, adding that the Board has made
arrangement to provide the book to avoid the challenge of
availability and piracy and that the textbooks will be
issued at the point of registration.
According to the JAMB Spokesman, the Board has also
introduced a regulated registration format where only our
Computer-Based Test, CBT, centers and state offices
nationwide are authorised to register candidates.
“The idea of a regulated registration centre is to prevent
situations where candidates are exploited and to check
impersonation, including other acts of malpractices”, he
said.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),
through its registrar recently stated that candidates who
were not computer literate would not be allowed to write
any examination coordinated by the board from 2015.
Although, the board had embarked on the establishment of
computer test centres across the country to prepare
students for all its examinations, many are still of the
opinion that mandating candidates to write a computer-
based test (CBT) may not be feasible.
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