Nigeria Universities – Polytechnics and College of Education news Nigerian Educational News | Zenith Of Educational NewsAccording to latest news reaching us today, is that the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had on Thursday disclosed that its adoption of Computer Based Test (CBT) was to stop the menace of examination malpractice.
Right now, the Kaduna State Coordinator of JAMB, Mr Matthew Audu who disclosed this to Dailyschoolnews Nigeria in Kaduna at a one-day advocacy and sensitisation campaign on the use of Computer Base Test (CBT) during Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Mr Matthew Audu also said that the e-testing method would also help make faster, the release of the examination results, which would also result in the cutting down on the time of candidates wait anxiously to see their performance/results.
The Kaduna state Co-ordinator also said that the computer testing would release a candidate’s score immediately after the completion and submission of answers.
Mr Matthew said that the board would eliminate the normal paper pencil method of examination in the year 2015.
In his exact words: “By 2015, no candidate will be allowed to write UTME through the normal old method of paper pencil method; it will strictly be computer based test.”
The Kaduna state coordinator, therefore, advised all participating schools to ensure that their students were properly trained on the use of computer, to be able to write the JAMB UTME without stress.
According to him, 100 students from 10 schools wrote a mock UTME during the sensitisation campaign, which was to help them to enable them become familiar with the new method of examination.
According to one of the students who sat for the mock UTME, Oluchi Okoli from FGC, Kaduna said that the new system was more accurate and would eliminate cheating during examinations.
Likewise, Favour Jonathan from Dambo International School (DIS) described the e-testing as “transparent”.
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