The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Tuesday conducted the rescheduled mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) for 84, 000 candidates across the country.

Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, who announced this after monitoring the exam in Abuja, expressed delight over the hitch-free exercise.

While commending candidates for showing understanding over the board’s decision to reschedule the examination for Tuesday (today), Oloyede said the glitches earlier experienced in the mock-UTME in some computer based test centres (CBT) prompted the board to reschedule the examination.

He also said the board used the rescheduled mock-UTME to deploy some innovations ahead of the main UTME.

The JAMB registrar said: “We should also thank the students for bearing with us when we were trial-testing. You know we gave notice that we were moving to a new level and I think by God’s grace, we are now arriving at the next level. Those things we wanted to test, we have seen what they were and we went back and made sure everything works and it is working.

“We will still be focused on issues relating to cable- that you called network in the centre, there may be few centres that we may have one problem or the other but we are going to get over that.

“For example, we have decided that all those with zero clients (computers that have no CPU identity but relied on a central server and shared the same IP address) will have to change if they must continue on our network.”

Speaking further, the JAMB boss said the Mock-UTME held in 387 CBT centres across the country, with 16 of the centres having two sessions, adding that the results of the exam would be out today. (The Nation)