The Joint Admission and
Matriculation
Board (JAMB), has urged
candidates to
dispel their fears and
embrace
the
Computer Based Test
(CBT)
policy as it
would help restore glory
to the
country’s education
system.
JAMB’s Head of Public
Relations,
Mr
Fabian Benjamin, who
made
this
disclosure in Abuja, said:
“Education in
Nigeria used to be the best
competing
with other countries
globally;
with CBT
now we have been able to
curb
exam
malpractice.
“And once exam
malpractice is
not
there our education will
be on a
sound
footing; as far as CBT is
concerned, I
don’t think we had any
challenge last
year.
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“The only challenge was
the
issue of
the phobia by Nigerians
over
the CBT,
but we have been able to
overcome
that and they are
beginning to
see that
this is not as complex as
they
thought.
“We are getting very
impressive
responses from the
candidates,
from
parents and from other
stakeholders;
so by the grace of God this
exam
is
going to be a huge
success.
“We are working with
security
agencies and they have
been
giving us
assurances; moreover, our
examination is after the
elections.
“We believe that before
we
start, the
elections would have come
and
gone.
The CBT examination is
not a
one-day
examination; it is
beginning on
March
4th, and it will stretch for
two
weeks.
He said CBT was
introduced by
JAMB in
2013 to address the issue
of
release of
incomplete result and
missing
scripts
of exam candidates.
He gave the assurance
that the
use of
the CBT policy of the
board in
administering public
examinations
would help place Nigeria’s
education
system on the same
pedestal
obtainable in any part of
the
world.
(NAN)