As candidates prepare to write the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME mock on Thursday, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says they are free to enter the exam hall with ordinary HP pencil.
However,the board which stated this Wednesday.in a statement by its spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, added that candidates can only come with only one pencil to their respective examination centres as specified while ensuring that they are not in possession of any other prohibited items.
The terse statement read:"All candidates sitting the 2024 Mock-UTME scheduled to hold on Thursday, 7th March, 2024, are allowed to enter the examination hall with ordinary HP pencil for numerical analysis if they so desire.
"This clarification became necessary following the series of enquiries from candidates and the general public alike regarding whether HP pencils are permitted in the examination hall as a writing material.
"It should be noted that the Board had hitherto prohibited the use of pencils and other banned materials in view of the nefarious ends that these materials are put.
"The Board, has, however, okayed the use of ordinary HP pencil during the upcoming Mock-UTME and the main scheduled to commence on Friday, 19th April, 2024.
"Consequently, candidates are urged to note that they are to come with only one pencil to their respective examination centres as specified while ensuring that they are not in possession of any other prohibited items."
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