The 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has started in over 800 centres across Nigeria.
Reporters who visited some computer-based centres in Abuja metropolis on day one of the tests report that the biometric capturing was closed to seamless, and candidates who filled out orderly into examination halls were mostly seen on face masks.
Most of the centres are expected to have between two and three sessions of 200 candidates each.
The first session scheduled to begin by 7:00 am was delayed in a few centred due to what JAMB supervisors described as caused by arranging the spaces as the initial exercise.
Some accredited JAMB monitors appraised the exercise but, however, advised against disregard for Covid-19 social distance protocol.
For some candidates, their desire is to have a successful test to enable them to study their preferred courses in their tertiary institutions of choice.
More than 1.3 million candidates registered for 2021 UTME and a little more than 73, 000 applied for direct entry.
The exercise is expected to end on July 3.