The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof Ishaq Oloyede has disclosed that “exceptional” students below the age of 16 can register for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination as the board had opened the Exceptionally Brilliant Window for such candidates.
He noted that while the examination body had enforced the minimum age requirement for any students into tertiary institutions at 16, the need for below-16s to sit for the UTME was necessitated by the number of rare, exceptional students.
Oloyede, a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, stated this as a guest on the Sunday edition of a socio-political programme, Inside Sources with Laolu Akande, on Channels Television.
“In Nigeria, there are many brilliant students, we have so many excellent people. We are enforcing the 16-year minimum entry into tertiary institutions but some people are saying there are exceptional students. Yes, there are exceptional students but they are just one in a million.
