According to a statement released Tuesday, the examination agency made the decision at the conclusion of its management meeting in December 2022.
So, the Board has given the go-ahead for registration to start for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between January 14 and February 14, 2023.
This does not include registration for Direct Entry (DE) application materials, according to a statement released by the board on Tuesday. DE registration would begin on February 20 and run until April 20, 2022.
The Board also decided to have an optional mock UTME on March 16, 2023.
The statement added: “Candidates are to note that they would be required to pay the sum of N1000 service charge for CBT centres for the conduct of mock examination at the point of registration to prevent a situation where candidates would indicate their interest to sit the mock-UTME leading the various centres to commit human and material resources only for them to stay away on the day of the examination.
“With the new arrangement, candidates indicate their interest by paying for the mock at the point of UTME registration, precluding the centres from incurring any loss whether candidates turn up or not.”
Also, the Board has fixed April 29, 2023, for the conduct of the 2023 UTME, which is expected to end on May 12, 2023.
The Board, therefore, advised all candidates who desire to register for the 2023 UTME to immediately embark on creating their respective profiles (creation of profile code) ahead of the formal commencement of the registration exercise to avoid being caught up in any ensuing bottleneck.