JAMB Releases list Of Banned items In exam Halls

A list of banned items with the aid of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board ahead of the 2018 Mock exam as well as the main exam has been launched.

The prohibited items are wrist watches, pen/biro, cellular telephones or comparable digital devices, spy reading glasses which have to be scrutinised, calculators or similar electronic devices, USB, CD, difficult disks and/or comparable storage devices, books or any analyzing/writing fabric, cameras, recorders, microphones, ear portions, ink/pen readers, clever lenses, clever earrings/jewelry, clever buttons and Bluetooth gadgets.

In case of medicated eye glasses, the exam officers are allowed to scrutinise it and in which convinced that such object may also compromise the sanctity of the exam, the exam reputable might need to confiscate it.

wherein an exam respectable (board workforce or advert hoc personnel) or any permitted character is discovered with any of those prohibited gadgets within the exam hall, such compromising motion could be handled as a deliberate act of exam sabotage and important sanction can be applied.

these are part of the steps being taken by using the JAMB monitoring Goup, a Civil Society corporations inaugrated with the aid of the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, in checkmating exam malpractice.

final 12 months, the groups were reputed to have assisted in giving facts from the sector and transmitted numerous challenges, as relevant, to JAMB officers which helped in curtailing the excessive rate of exam malpractices in 2017.