Sometimes, problems are experienced in
the areas of insufficient materials which often lead to missing scripts
or missing results.
However, to curb this, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde announced yesterday that three options would be introduced for the 2013 UTME.
Paper and Pencil Testing (PPT), Dibu
Based Test (DBT), where questions would be presented on computers and
answers would be on paper and Computer Based Testing (CBT) where both
questions and answers would be done on computer.
When I first read the “Dibu Based Test”, I was confused until I realized he named it after himself. How interesting.
Mr Ojerinde stated that candidates were at liberty to choose one of the three options in the 2013 UTME.
According to him, candidates who chose
the CBT option would get their scores a few minutes after writing the
examination on their mobile phones.
“The internet age has come to stay
with us hence as actors in the new age, you cannot afford to stay on the
fence, you must be prepared to join the train or else you are left
behind,” he told Daily Times.
This seems like quite a laudable
initiative, but the question is this; is JAMB prepared to conduct
Computer Based Tests for the hundreds of thousands of students who might
opt for the new methods next year. In 2012, a total of 1, 503,931
candidates sat for the UTME and even though they were all Paper and
Pencil Testing, there were still logistics problems.
I remember the last time University of
Lagos tried to conduct Computer Based Tests for its Post-UTME
candidates. With the few computers available compared to the hundreds of
candidates, it was chaos. How then can JAMB conduct Computer Based
Tests for hundreds of thousands of candidates across the country when
some states obviously don’t have the resources to conduct the tests? Are
they really prepared for this? I guess we’d just have to wait and see.
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