otokx: interesting

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stagger: Not surprised that it is a Kano man spearheading this attempt to take us back to the stone age. How many trees have to keep getting cut down to produce paper for more than 300,000 JAMB candidates a year?

The Northern oligarchy are the problem of this country. They never want progress and they keep wanting to send us back. It is 44 years since the Americans went to the moon, and yet we are still conducting paper based testing for an exam with complaints of mass cheating. What will it take for us to purge this country of these enemies of progress?

how many secondary schools are equipped with computers.

JAMB itself lacks the competence and facilities to conduct the examinations, hence JAMB has contracted private firm to conduct the computer based test (CBT)

shine-eye:
The decision by JAMB to kick start in 2013 is ill-advised, ill-timed and the institution is ill-equipped to undertake the mission. The intervention of the NASS is a welcome development and is a rescue mission for the marginalized majority of Nigerians.

Adopting a motion on matters of urgent public importance sponsored by Rep. Ali Madaki (PDP, Kano), the House directed the education ministry and JAMB to suspend the computer based test planned for April this year and revert back to the use of old existing centres and the new secondary schools constructed by various arms of government and allow for more time to equip these schools with necessary infrastructure conduct computer test.

JAMB itself lacks the competence and facilities to conduct the examinations, hence JAMB has contracted private firm to conduct the computer based test (CBT)?

Bontee:
Just like CISCO, ETS and others contract their exams to partner institutions, no difference please.

patholaw: Wat is going to happen to people that chose E-test

mikeyhernadez: yepaa__wetin 4000 students wan con do na..dose wen don register?

Bontee:

We have to start from somewhere and bringing the year earlier than the stated time is not wrong in my opinion. So when people go to write TOEFL, SAT, ACTS, GRE AND GMATS in nigeria or anywhere in the world, it is the testing agencies that owns the centers or it is contracted to private firms?.

If you decide to write CCNA right now, so are you telling me that it is CISCO that provides the testing centers or you go to write in one of their partner facilities. The testing centers are shifting from secondary schools to private facilities so lets embrace it and its not like they have scrapped paper based testing from what i can see. Even with only 1000 testing centers, the exams can be spread over a certain period where students can choose the particular date they will be writing their exams.

So let the reps allow Jamb to go ahead with whatever plans they have in place.