The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has dismissed reports a section of the media that the Board has increased the registration fee for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
JAMB Public Communication Advisor (PCA), Dr Fabian Benjamin, who disclaimed the insinuations in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said there was no iota of truth in the said publications.
He maintained that the cost of the 2024 UTME/DE (Direct Entry) e-PIN remains N3,500.
“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 N5,000 in 2018.
“Therefore, the Board wishes to state that the cost of application documents price has not been increased despite the prevailing economic reality in the country which has also affected the cost of the Board’s operations,” he stated.
Benjamin assured the general public that the Board had been doing everything within its powers to ensure that candidates were not overburdened.
He added that one of these measures was to deliberately keep cost low hence the Board’s 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.
“Therefore, all UTME candidates would access the reading text free of charge through multiple channels, which include their profiles, e-mail addresses, notification slips, and the Board’s website.
“It is, however, pertinent to state the fact that what is being perceived in some quarters as an increment in its fees is nothing other than the fallout of its cashless policy through which all fees payable by candidates to CBT centres have been consolidated and are paid along with their application fees to prevent their wanton exploitation by unscrupulous centre owners.
