Jamb Concludes Plans On CBT Examination

The Joint Adminis
trations and Matriculation Board (JAMB), organizers of the Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), says it has now concluded plans to leap from the analogue to total e-system of examination.
JAMB’s Registrar, Prof Dibu Ojerinde, stated this is a monitored news, in Port Harcourt.
He said that the body was now set to conduct full Computer-based Test (CBT) for all candidates seeking to be admitted into the country’s tertiary institutions.
Ojerinde informed that all centres for the examination would hence forth conduct its examination based on CBT, unlike when it was conducting both analogue and the e-system.
According to him, the computer examination would commence next year, adding that they have the support of concerned stakeholders.
The Tide gathered that the JAMB would start the sale of forms for 2015/2016 academic session on Monday September 15, 2014.
According to our findings, the exercise would stretch from the said date to sometime in January 2015.
Some students who spoke with our reporter in Port Harcourt, called on the authority to first of all establish government-owned CBT centres before embarking on the full scale electronic system of examination.
They were of the view that attracting with private or state-owned computer centres was not the best since JAMB was yearning for a change.
They pointed out that the aim of the e-system examination would only be achieved if it would, among other things, provide for permanent training centres across the six-geopolitical zones before the commencement of the examination by next year.