EDUCATION: JAMB Declares New Date For 2020/21 Post-UTME Screening
By Ibrahim Kegbegbe
Registrar of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has announced that the 2020/2021 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination screening will hold between September 7 and November 18.
Oloyede made the announcement after the agreement between the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and Vice-Chancellors, Rectors, and Provosts of tertiary institutions on Monday.
Before today, the board had published a guideline for all tertiary institutions to begin their admission with effect from August 20.
Oloyede said the new date would allow students to take the 2020 O’ level examinations to be able to participate in the screening.
He said, “Presently as you are aware, WAEC starts the Senior School Certificate Examination on August 17, it will go on till September 7.
“Similarly, on September 21 or thereabout, NABTEB will commence its examination that will go on till on the 15 of October, and immediately after that, NECO starts on the 5th and will hold till 18 of November.
“Rather than making candidates run, particularly, when they will have to write their school certificate exam in different towns and rush to university elsewhere for post-UTME, like somebody rushing from Sokoto to Ibadan for post-UTME, we believe as a custodian of the highest sector of the education system, we should avoid that.
“For those (institutions) who want to take post-UTME, that cannot be earlier than the 7th of September and it will be held twice – September 7 to October 4, and then it will be held for the second time on the 18 November to mop up those who are taking their school certificate examination.”

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