JAMB speaks on exam malpractices recorded in 2018 UTME

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that
it recorded an appreciable drop in the number of exam malpractices in
the conduct of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME).

Compared to 2017 with 2, 508 exam malpractice cases, the Board said it
recorded 280 cases in 2018 UTME, indicating a percentage difference of
-88.84 per cent.

It also vowed to work assiduously with all stakeholders to ensure
continuous drop in the cases of exam malpractices, to, perhaps, boost
the credibility of the exam system.

Its Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, had announced, shortly before the
commencement of the 2018 UTME that the Board had reviewed previous
exercises and had strongly blocked several identified and new possible
avenues through which candidates could cheat.

However, a document from JAMB indicated that 37, 516 candidates that
successfully registered for the 2018 UTME were recorded absent for an
unexplained reason. This was against 30, 006 candidates that were
recorded absent in 2017.

Similarly, the Board said it recorded 19.32 per cent increase in the
number of visually impaired candidates that registered for the 2018
UTME as against 2017 exercise.

It revealed that 315 visually impaired candidates participated in 2018
UTME as against 264 candidates that registered for the 2017 exercise.

It, however, thanked the Federal College of Education (FCE) (Special),
Oyo, University of Lagos (UniLag) and the University of Jos (UniJos)
for giving reasonable opportunity to visually impaired candidates in
the 2017 admission year.

It disclosed that FCE (Special), Oyo, admitted 31 candidates in the
2017 admission year, while UniLag and UniJos admitted 30 and 20
candidates respectively, in the 2017 admission year.