Every year, hundreds of thousands of students sit for the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination (UTME) to gain entrance into Nigerian
universities. The large number of candidates coupled with other logistics
problems often makes conducting the exams quite a headache for the
examination officials and the candidates.
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.
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.

Dt computer based test will def have some hitches cos of network palaver...imagine when all d cbt participants log in at d same time, it aint gonna be easy

Lets just watch out how it goes!

ATMC: Dt computer based test will def have some hitches cos of network palaver...imagine when all d cbt participants log in at d same time, it aint gonna be easy

100% very valid point!

It would av been the best option but network will mess it up.