UMTE: JAMB Candidates Demand Modern Centres

Prospective candidates of
the e-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have called on the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Dibu Ojerinde, to ensure that all e-centres in the country are up to date.
Speaking with our reporter in Port Harcourt last Wednesday, some students recalled how badly some centres were last year.
One Taribo Orupabo, said that one of the e-centres in Port Harcourt frustrated him last year as the system given to him was faulty.
He hinted that most of the examiners were not after the plight of the students, but were only interested in their personal transactions in the hall.
Orupabo, however, pleaded with the JAMB boss to ensure a thorough supervision of all the e-centres in the country, in order to have a hitch-free examination.
Another respondent, who gave her name as Mercy Njoku, decried the use of computer in external examinations of such standard, saying that computer examinations ought to be for internal examinations.
According to him, most schools and centres lack current ICT tools and should not be allowed to carry out computer based examinations.
Njoku, said the only way forward was for JAMB to build massive centres in the 36 states of the federation which would take all the candidates the same time.
She also regretted a situation where some systems (computers) would shut-down automatically, before the specified time of the examination, saying that JAMB must own up if it wanted to maintain the e-system of its examination.
Concerning the less cumbersomeness of the e-exam, others said that additional attention should be paid to the system in a bid to encourage students to embrace the system.
It would be recalled that JAMB has announced that after next year, all of its examinations would be computer-based so as to meet up with the global development in education.