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The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that the 2017 United Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) would hold in May.
Sale of forms would commence in two weeks.
“2017 UTME is scheduled to hold in May 2017. Actual dates will be announced soon. Beware of false dates and fraudsters”, the body said last week.
Addressing newsmen on Wednesday, JAMB registrar, Prof. Isiaq Oloyede said that the exam body has stopped the use of scratch cards.
He explained that scratch cards were eliminated because UTME candidates were being extorted.
He said: “For the 2017 UTME, we have taken a decision to commence the sale of the form soon. Within the next two weeks, we will be out. The reason for this is that we are making all arrangements that ought to be made. We have changed the process of payment, no more scratch card selling. We need to put the right architecture in place and we have put this in place.
“The examination will be coming up later than usual. This is to make sure we take into consideration the interest of the students. We are going to conduct the UTME in May. It will not clash with any SSCE examinations
He said the new timing of the UTME was to check any form of malpractice, especially upgrading of results.