From Owede Agbajileke, Abuja
Over 211,000 out of the total 2,030,627 candidates sat for the 2025 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) across designated Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres in Nigeria yesterday.
The figure represents 10.4 per cent of the applicants for the April 25 examinations. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, who disclosed this while monitoring the exercise at a CBT centre in Bwari, Abuja, said results of the mock test would be released tomorrow.
“They will have the results tomorrow (Friday). The results will be ready. For those who finished, we are working now on their results, but we want to compare them with the second batch, the third batch, and so on. And see that everything is working well. But later by tomorrow (Friday), they will have the results,” he said.
Explaining the purpose of the mock examination, Oloyede said the exercise was aimed at testing the Board’s readiness for the main examination and experimenting with new strategies to improve the process.
“We are doing certain things to ensure that those things are done. So, we are trying to make sure that when we go for the exam, we will have taken experience and taken some lessons from our experience at the mock level,” he added.
The Registrar, who emphasized that the only way to pass the UTME was by studying hard, expressed concerns that some candidates were patronising rogue websites to cheat, adding that JAMB had also opened a decoy website targeting such individuals.
“We need to let the students know that the best way to pass the examination, UTME in particular, is to study. We are aware of some rogue websites asking people to come and pay so that they can help.
“It cannot work. We have also opened our own rogue website. And as of this morning (yesterday), about 180 students have paid,” he said. The JAMB boss advised candidates to steer clear of fraudulent websites and individuals claiming to offer assistance during the examination.
