The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked reports making round that it increased its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) registration fee.

Recall that some media outlets (not Wakadaily) reported that JAMB had increased the registration fee for the 2024 UTME

The post read, “This is to inform all prospective 2024 UTME/DE candidates that the creation of Profiles for registration has officially started, while the sale of application documents will commence on Monday, January 15, 2024”.

It pegged the registration fee as “N7,700 for UTME registration inclusive of a mock examination, and N6,200 for UTME registration without the mock examination. Sale of Application documents for Foreign Candidates: $30.”

However JAMB on Wednesday explained that the price of obtaining the Board’s UTME documents remains N3,500, which has been the cost since it was reduced from N500 in 2018.

The statement read: “The attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been drawn to several publications in recent times insinuating that the Board has increased its examination registration fee.

“This is far from the truth as the cost of obtaining the Board’s UTME application documents remains N3,500, which has been the cost of its application documents since it was brought down from N5000 in 2018.

“Therefore, the Board wishes to state that the cost of application documents price has not been increased in spite of the prevailing economic reality in the country which has also affected the cost of the Board’s operations.

Consequently, the Board wishes to assure the general public that the Board had been doing all within its powers to ensure that candidates are not overburdened in anyway.

One of these measures is to deliberately keep cost low hence its decision to make available its Use of English reading text free of charge through a QR code to ensure that the increase in cost of production is not passed to candidates.”

He emphasised that, “For the avoidance of doubt, the 2024 UTME/DE e-PIN remains N3500. The registration fee of N700, which is to be paid to CBT centres by candidates, is now to be collected by the Board along with N1500, which is the cost for sitting the main UTME, and N1500 as the cost of the optional Mock-UTME etc are to be collected by the Board on behalf of the CBT centres.”

Also, the date for 2024 UTME Mock Examination Date: 7th March 2024. Printing of 2024 UTME Examination Slips: 10th April 2024, while 2024 UTME Examination date is April 19 to April 29.