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The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board on Thursday banned the use of 16 items in the forthcoming mock examinations scheduled for February 26, 2018. The Board made the position known in a memo issued by the Secretary of JAMB UTME Monitoring Groups, Ngozi Egbuna to members of Civil Society Group.
“Kindly note that examination officials are allowed to scrutinize eye glasses or similar devices and where convinced that such item may compromise the sanctity of the examination, the examination official should confiscate it.
“Where examination official (board staff or ad hoc staff) or any authorised person is found with any of these prohibited items in the examination hall, such compromising action would be treated as a deliberate act of examination sabotage and necessary sanction will be applied.”
She listed the banned items to include wrist watches, pen/biro, mobile phones or similar electronic devices, spy reading glasses which should be scrutinised, calculators or similar electronic devices, USB, CD, hard disks and/or similar storage devices.
Others are books or any reading/writing material, cameras, recorders, microphones, ear pieces, ink/pen readers, smart lenses, smart rings/jewellery, smart buttons and Bluetooth devices.
Punch reports that the CSG is one of the groups inaugurated by the Board to assist in monitoring the conduct of the UTME.
