Candidates free to take exams anywhere in Nigeria – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has clarified that candidates are allowed to take their examinations at any location within the country.

This statement comes in response to a misleading report about the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which falsely claimed that candidates must take the exam in the state where they registered.

JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, addressed the misinformation on Wednesday, stressing that the claim is untrue.

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According to Mr. Benjamin, the report published by a media outlet is inaccurate and does not reflect the Board’s policy.

In a recent interview with a NAN reporter, I clarified that candidates are not restricted to taking the examination within their state of registration. They have the flexibility to register anywhere in the country and select any town nationwide from any registration point.

Computer-Based Test Centres are clustered according to towns for convenience, allowing candidates to choose the town where they wish to take the examination.

For example, if a candidate selects Garki as their examination town, they must take the exam there and cannot do so or be posted, as alleged at times, to a different town.

It is crucial to rectify this misunderstanding to prevent confusion among candidates. Those who have registered for the UTME and selected examination towns outside their state of registration are indeed permitted to sit for the examination in their chosen towns, he added.

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He further explained that candidates are free to choose their examination town from any part of the country, irrespective of the state in which they registered.

For example, a candidate may register in Lagos and choose to take the examination in Sokoto or any other preferred location.

This flexibility is intended to cater to candidates’ convenience, allowing them to select the most suitable examination center.

He added that the public should completely disregard the inaccurate report published by NAN.

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