A brand new web site has been created by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Registrar (JAMB) to curb the incessant examination malpractice by candidates.
JAMB’s registrar, Ishaq Oloyede on Thursday, April 10, mentioned the examination physique is taking steps to apprehend candidates who plan to cheat through the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) mock examination.
Chatting with journalists at a CBT centre in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory whereas monitoring the mock examination, Oloyede mentioned the decoy web site is geared toward catching candidates who cheat through the examination.
Olyede mentioned, “We have to let the scholars know that the easiest way to go the examination, UTME specifically, is to review. We’re conscious of some rogue web sites asking individuals to return and pay in order that they can assist. It can not work. We’ve additionally opened our personal rogue web site. As of this morning, about 180 college students have paid.
“So these college students, as a result of to aim to cheat is already an infraction. So those that paid into that account, searching for questions, we’re going to deal firmly with them.
“In lots of the establishments, UTME will not be a school-based examination. We register college students individually. That’s the reason we inform the scholars to not give out their registration numbers. Don’t register by proxy,” he mentioned.
Oloyede urged candidates by no means to offer their registration quantity to anyone or faculty. He mentioned faculties derive pleasure in bragging with good outcomes from candidates who should not their college students.
Stating that the examination physique was able to cancel outcomes of people or faculties who have interaction in malpractice, Oloyede mentioned, “We’ve about 180 of them. And we’re going to cope with them firmly. We’re going to cancel their outcomes, each UTME and DE.”