Revert To Pencil-Paper Tests, House Of Rep Tell Jamb
The House of Representative on Thursday, March 17 directed the Joint Admissions Matriculation Examination, JAMB to discontinue the Computer Based Test, CBT. The House said “technical flaws” recorded in the latest computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination had exposed JAMB’s lack of capacity to handle the computer-based tests…
The House also wants the examinations body to run both the pencil- paper examination and CBT for candidates who should choose how they want to write exam.
The resolution was passed after a lawmaker from Lagos State, Mr. Oghene Emma-Egoh, had moved a motion on the “conflicting” scores of candidates who took the examination.
He said: “The House is worried that already, serious admission problem is rocking the nation because JAMB receives huge allocation from the Federal Government, they charge candidates all manner of fees and majority of the candidates do not gain admission because of the technical hitches of the CBT.” He cited instances of conflicting scores which was occasioned by technical flaws.
He said: “Foluke, the 17-year-old girl in Ejigbo-Lagos, scored an aggregate of 156 in the first result, while in the result that later came out, she had an aggregate of 196.” Citing another instance, he said Ibrahim Shawulu from Kogi state who scored 399 out of 400, but in less than 24 hours another result surfaced reducing Shawulu’s score to 199.
Other law makers while supporting insisted the CBT be made optional for the students.
The House which approved of the motion after it was put to a voice vote by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara also mandated its committee on education to investigate the matter and report back to the House for further legislative input.
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I doubt if these people are even a bit serious, so they know their flaw and they are resolving it for next year’s candidates. So what about those this year. They should better get their priority straight. And by the way, paper based test can’t work in Nigeria anymore, they started something they should finish it.
The only remedy is to CANCEL the 2016 JAMB exams and choose dates for a re-run of the entire process
I think what every university should do is lower theit cut off mark and the only determinant for your admission into your university should be your post utme
I guess Fed. govt shuld cancel jamb.and we shuld focus on d sch we wish by buyin der entrance exam form..abi wetin una think??
Cancel what!!!!!!……there will now be a lot of people aspiring for a course look at the medicine and surgery like about 11000 so that number if people will be sitting for post utme and what about the 7500 we paid for registration dibu and his people will pocket it abb
I don’t know if I shld go further with post utme preparation..cause news is going arnd bout removal of 40 marks..whats apning..what shld we do plz..im really confused…just praying they shld not remove 40 marks from my score
I’d say it’s better the results are cancelled and we’re called to retake the test. Who’s with me?
I am
Jamb should reshedule the exams so we can take it again
The result of this year is just so bad
Corruption evrywhere
this pple are still not sensible abt this issue,wat can ppt do to 2016 affected candidates? the best solution is to remark the exam for proper amendment. na God we take beg ooo, time Wait’s no one.
the best option is to revert A’Levels,two years after O’levels,this will sanitize the wholr mess