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RSUST Students Voice Support For Computer-Based Exam
Students of the Rivers
State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) Nkpolu, have demanded for the re-introduction of Computer-based examination in the campus.
The students who spoke with The Tide Wednesday in Port Harcourt, said the computer based examination was helpful in the attempt to eliminate examination fraud.
They noted that since the suspension of computer process, there have been issues of intimidation by some lecturers in the institution.
One of the students, Kate Opara, pointed that computer-based examination was the best in an attempt to curb examination malpractice.
She said the process allowed students access to their scores immediately after examination without consulting any lecturer.
Another student, Geofferry Dimkpa explained that the computer exam was the most appropriate for examining freshers who are yet to acclimatize with the system.
He said allowing new university intakes to be faced with easy-kind of examination was too demanding due to their secondary school background.
Dimpka maintained that since the world was drifting towards interment and digitalization, it would be proper to uphold computer examinations in the campuses.
In his view, Julius Amadi said computer-based exams was the way forward in achieving modern day education.
According to him, the system should be revived, but should undergo thorough re-structuring due to the alleged fraudulent acts that greeted it in time past.
It would be recalled that the vice-chancellor of RSUST, Prof Blessing Didia, suspended the computer based examination of the institution following issues of fraudulent act and other related challenges.
The Tide has it on good authority that the school’s management has concluded plans to re-introduce the system when once it was done with the removal of all grey areas in the process.