The House of Representatives has ordered the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to scrap its computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Punch reports that the lawmakers asked the examination body to return to the old pen and paper method. Reports also say that the Reps suggested that JAMB should give students the option of sitting for the computer based, or the pen and paper exam.
A lawmaker, Mr. Oghene Emma-Egoh who raised the motion, said the technical issues experienced during the computer-based tests, has dashed the hopes of students who aspire to further their education.
“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.”
Mr Emma-Egoh also gave an instance saying “Foluke, the 17-year-old girl in Ejigbo-Lagos, scored an aggregate of 156 in the first result, while in the result that later came out, she had an aggregate of 196.”.
*This computer idea was already dead on arrival.
JAMB be frustrating children since 19 kpichikom
ReplyDeleteThat's good but it will increase exam malpractice
DeleteWhere in the world do you move forward two steps and back 100? We moved to computer based testing then at the slightest hiccup we want paper and pencils. He should ask for cowries and stones instead.
DeleteGood for them
ReplyDeleteWhy won't it be good for them. When you don't want Osu's to go to school. Refusing to work and waiting on your brother to die so that you inherit his property and send away his wife and kids.
DeleteVery good idea
DeleteLol
ReplyDelete506 comment 2016
I'm in total support of this
ReplyDelete*Larry was here*
Good!
ReplyDeleteYes!!! Nice decision
ReplyDeleteYeah, they should make PBT an option. This is 2016! They should learn how to use a computer. They should even be thanking(In a way) jamb that they're making admission more difficult cos these students will graduate in a few years and then enter another problem of LOOKING FOR A JOB!
ReplyDeleteNo hope for dark skinned girls!
Gbam
DeleteVery well done.
ReplyDeleteAbout time.
ReplyDeleteJamb is frustrating children so much.
ReplyDeleteIts total bullshit
ReplyDeletePresent twice.....
ReplyDeleteThis is backwardness I can't imagine Federal house dragging us back to the 70's, they should just tell them to sort out n improve on the technical hitches rocking the program instead of scrapping it
Let them scrap it totally till they can fix d issues with them. You have no idea what some of those kids suffered.
DeleteSome of them will finish answering only to realize they had been disconnected from d server without them knowing. By the time they realize this, time would have been far spent.
Nice 1.
ReplyDeleteAnd I bet you, JAMB will not comply. It's the season of impunity
ReplyDeleteGood!
ReplyDeleteI support the motion.
All these jamb stuff, is it needed! Schools should just be allowed to conduct dis exam period.
ReplyDeleteI concur!!!!!
ReplyDeleteAre we progressing or retrogressing? Pen and paper in this high-tech computer age. Good save naija.
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And I was thinking the computer based test is the best thing to happen to jamb...can't the problem be fixed??? Instead of total scrapping? I don't want to remember how I wrote my own jamb in Enugu those days in an uncompleted sch building with a piece of block as table. Nail even chook me for leg. It was terrible.
ReplyDeleteD shud also order Nysc to stop posting dia camp date and scrap the scheme out if d ar not ready for it!!
ReplyDeleteJamb should get,this cbt to work well.
ReplyDeleteIf it works well...
Its really nice.
No need to go back.
Unless jamb cant fix the problems.
This is the first edition for crying out loud, there's bound to be problems the only thing our lawmakers should concern themselves with now is how to solve the problems, as this by far is the best option. There's no problem without a solution, the only time we will resolve to go back to our old pen and paper system is if the problem cannot be fixed. Most times the appian way may be shorter but usually deadly.
ReplyDeleteSo that your children will continue their cheating. Why not improve on it.
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