The House of Representatives on Thursday asked the Federal Ministry of Education to immediately direct the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to return to the former pencil-paper method in conducting examinations for candidates seeking admission into tertiary institutions.
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.
In the alternative, the House directed JAMB to conduct computer-based tests and pencil-paper examinations “simultaneously for candidates to opt for anyone of their choice.”
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 noted that besides the conflicting scores resulting from the technical flaws, it was obvious that many candidates could not pass the examination for the simple reason that they were not computer-literate.
Emma-Egoh argued that the implication was that the hopes of many intending students had been dashed due to the technical errors and their inability to use computers.
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.” Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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Good news 📰. CBT would have totally eradicate the less privileges and the poor from the villages chances of getting admissions to higher instructions. Those people are intelligent but weren't opportune to learn with a computer. But CBT made them score zero in JAMB.
ReplyDeleteThat is a good one. They should cancel this last JAMB examination and conduct it afresh based on this new development. Most centers had a lot of malfunctioning computers with low internet speed. This affected most candidates as the cimputer hanged and some took lots of time to download. Imagine a candidate still had 30 minutes remaining on the computer screen but the computer still timed out and terminated her examination.
ReplyDeleteThe computer based exam was good but I guess it reduced mago mago results for unqualified persons. Results were immediate. All undergrads must be computer literate in this new age. Haba House of Rep's. Who exactly are you representing just now?
ReplyDeleteBros,I would have loved your argument if indeed you are from a less previllege family or happened to attend a village secondary school like some of us. I want you to note that, I attended a village Secondary School where we had no access to computer. I remember the first time I saw a desktop monitor in Lagos, I called it a white TV, of course by then, I had my school certificate already and it was my sweat and not from a miracle center.As God would have it, I have B.Eng in Electrical/ Computer Engineering which earns me leaving. What would have been my fate today if entry exams in the university were computer based? We still have a system that has not catered wholly for the citizenry as it is expected off this age. Therefore it will be very unfair of the same disfunctional system to Make policies that will shut out pupils from villages like Daura in Katsina, Otuoke in Bayelsa, Ibogun in Ogun and of course Tsar in Benue from accessing the BRIDGE and indirectly creating idle hands ready to be recruited as insurgents, kidnappers, cultists, thugs etc. Let us adopt a down top design by fixing the basic necessities and other things will naturally follow. If you go to some of these village schools today, they have computers archived in their labs and worshipped like Gods because in most cases they were donated to them by some philanthropist, but they do not have electricity to power them or no teachers or both. First things first if we really mean well for this great country of ours.
DeleteI knew this was going to happen, since the uneducated Minister of Education said he wanted JAMB to go back to paper days because some pupils does not know how to use computer (Haba this is 2016). It's a shame on Nigeria that our Minister of Education will take our Education 10yrs backward because of a problem that could be fixed in 2wks. This is not the first time we are using CBT with JAMB however because our Minister is from the North where they have laptops stocked in so many Almajiri schools with nobody to use them, he has decided to take all of us to that level. I hope JAMB will resist this. The ease of getting ur result the next day and a stop to Exam malpractice in JAMB should not be traded for the wish of a vision less Education Minister who has decided to take the whole country backward to meet those at the back instead of taking the people who are at the back forward. I'm beginning to loose my trust in this administration. Buhari sld learn to appoint technocrats and not loyalist to sensitive post like Education.
ReplyDeleteI knew this was going to happen, since the uneducated Minister of Education said he wanted JAMB to go back to paper days because some pupils does not know how to use computer (Haba this is 2016). It's a shame on Nigeria that our Minister of Education will take our Education 10yrs backward because of a problem that could be fixed in 2wks. This is not the first time we are using CBT with JAMB however because our Minister is from the North where they have laptops stocked in so many Almajiri schools with nobody to use them, he has decided to take all of us to that level. I hope JAMB will resist this. The ease of getting ur result the next day and a stop to Exam malpractice in JAMB should not be traded for the wish of a vision less Education Minister who has decided to take the whole country backward to meet those at the back instead of taking the people who are at the back forward. I'm beginning to loose my trust in this administration. Buhari sld learn to appoint technocrats and not loyalist to sensitive post like Education.
ReplyDeleteThis is the one and only best decision ever made by National Legislatures in the interest of the masses..I have to comment them for this. It is freedom at last for intending admission seekers. well as events are unfolding...
ReplyDeletethat save them right
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