A total of 12,524 candidates registered for the University of Lagos Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, (UTME), for the 2013/2014 academic session, the News Agency of Nigeria reports.

Some of the candidates told NAN on Wednesday that they were satisfied with the conduct of the three-day examination, which started on Monday.

One of them, Miss Mariam Chibuzor, told NAN correspondent who monitored the examination that it was computer based and the biometrics verification exercise helped to check examination malpractice.

“I am very satisfied with the conduct of this year’s Post UTME examination because with the biometrics verification, there was no incident of impersonation all through the duration of the examination.

“It was just a case of you as a candidate and your computer,’’ she said, noting that candidates were thoroughly searched before they were allowed into the examination halls.

“I feel if anyone should scale through this examination, the person should be commended because I am tempted to say to a large extent, it was purely on merit,’’ she said.

Josiah Udom, another candidate, said the introduction of the biometrics machines as well as Computer Based Test mode of examination had helped to reform the process.

Udom, however, decried the high handedness displayed by some of the examiners toward the candidates.

“I really do not like the way some of the examiners talked to the candidates who walked up politely to them to ask very basic and simple questions.

“ I think they should be cautioned and civil enough to know that examination is not a matter of life and death,” he said.