The Joint Admissions Matriculations Board, JAMB, has shifted 2023 mock the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations, UTME, Scheduled for Thursday, March 16, 2023 to Thursday, March 30, 2023.
JAMB, explained that the change in date was partly due to the Governorship and State Houses of Assembly Elections which was postponed by a one week from Saturday, March 11, 2023, to March 18, 2023.
Meanwhile, no fewer than 168,748 registered for the 2023 mock UTME out of the over 1.5 million prospective candidates for this year’s UTME according to official statistics provided by JAMB.
The mock UTME is an optional examination introduced by the JAMB to provide an opportunity for candidates to have experience with the system as well as afford the board an opportunity to ascertain its readiness and that of its partners for the main UTME, which is scheduled to hold between April 29 to May 12, 2023.