2019 UTME: 390 visually impaired participate in 4 centres across Nigeria vanguardngr.com vanguardnews
The UTME for the visually impaired, which is taking place in four centres, started on Tuesday and will be concluded on Wednesday, April 17.The Chairman, Equal Opportunity Group of JAMB, Prof. Peter Okebukola, made the disclosure to the Newsmen on Wednesday at one of the venues of the examination at the University of Lagos.
Giving a breakdown of figures of the visually challenged candidates that were sitting for the examination in the four centres across the country, Okebukola said 57 wrote the examination at the Abuja centre.He noted that the subjects the candidates were examined on during the two-day examination included Agricultural Education, Arabic, Biology, Chemistry, Christian Religious Knowledge, Civic Education and Commerce.
“So far, a respectable number of blind candidates processed through the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group have secured admission into Federal, State and Private Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education,’’ he said. “That being said, we have also been working towards migrating to their own kind of Computer Based Test in a year or two.
She said she was optimistic that her candidates would post impressive performance as the home had placed the candidates under intensive teaching, monitoring and supervision.“We have been preparing them for this examination in the past one year.
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