JAMB Builds 10 Computer-Based Testing Centres

The Joint Admissions
and Matriculation
Board (JAMB) said it had built 10 Computer-based Testing (CBT) centres for smooth conduct of 2014 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
The Registrar of the board, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, announced this at a news conference on the board’s preparations for the conduct of the examination in Bwari (FCT).
Ojerinde said JAMB had worked very hard to build one centre in Bwari with a carrying capacity of 250 candidates and also equipped with 20 computer back-ups.
“Our determination to embrace this all-encompassing mode of examination is to place Nigerian education at par with global best practice,” he said.
He said that the Paper Pencil Test (PPT) and Dual Based Testing (DBT) were scheduled to hold tomorrow, April 12 while the CBT would be written on May 17.
The registrar said that the board had put necessary measures in place to conduct the three tests successfully.
According to him, the board had also resolved to go full-blown on the use of the CBT as means of effectively curbing hitches of result black-outs and other forms of malpractice.
Ojerinde said: “I wish to assure all candidates that the board is very ready to conduct the 2014 UTME and detailed arrangements have been made to ensure a hitch-free examination.’’
He stated that the examination would hold in all the towns and centres both within and outside the country.
“The examination will hold simultaneously in 392 towns in Nigeria and seven foreign centres namely Accra in Ghana, Bue in Republic of Cameroun and Cotonou in Benin Republic.
Others are London, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, Johannesburg and Abidjan.
”A total of 1,865 centres will be used for the conduct of the PPT examination; 133 centres for DBT and about 153 will be used for CBT,” he said.
He warned candidates against the use of cell phones at examination centres, as it would be considered examination malpractice.
While assuring of JAMB’s readiness to conduct a hitch-free 2014 UTME, the registrar said JAMB had also engaged the services of security agencies to monitor and maintain close surveillance throughout the examination.