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JAMB To Begin Sale Of 2017 UTME Form Is Out by Enapesunday(m): 6:26am On Feb 15, 2017 |
… Expects 1.7m candidates to apply –
Registrar, Prof. Oloyede
The Registrar, Joint Admission and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq
Oloyede, Tuesday hinted that the body would
soon commence the sale of the application
form for the 2017 Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination(UTME).
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Oloyede said an estimated 1.7 million
candidates are expected register and sit for
the Computer Based Test (CBT) across the
country, adding that they are also increasing
the capacity of the CBT centres to maximise
their effectiveness to examine more candidates
within a given date.
The Chief Executive Officer of JAMB made this
known at the Green Legacy, Olusegun
Obasanjo Presidential Library (OOPL),
Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, while fielding
questions from journalists shortly after a
meeting of the JAMB officials and other
stakeholders regarding the new Information
Technology being introduced into the system
to make it less stressful to candidates.
According to him, the body is working with the
possibility of conducting a “mock examination”
not only to test its preparedness with the new
technology, but also to examine some people
that are desirous of knowing their competence
with the JAMB examination.
He noted that stakeholders meeting was
predicated on the need for people to make
inputs into the new ICT facilities and critique
it before putting them into use.
Oloyede said Nigeria is ripe for an ICT –
driven examinations, disclosing that the
innovation would definitely unsettle some
people, who hitherto were short-changing
JAMB through “fraud” and in some cases,
duplication of PIN.
“What we are doing appears to be suitable to
majority of our stakeholders. It is a surprise to
us that we are apprehensive of what we
wanted to do that maybe we are going to
create problem. We are more confident to go
along with the sale of the form for 2017 UTME
examination.
“I believed that Nigeria is ripe for this. Nigeria
is more advanced than some of these
countries. At least, we have three or four
countries that are observing our examination
and they want to go the way of the conduct
of the examination.
“We are expecting 1.7 million candidates and
we want to make sure we satisfy these
candidates within a week or there about. That
is why we are increasing the capacity of the
Computer Based Test centres to be able to
examine more candidates within a given date
“If we are talking about 1.5 million candidates,
it means that in a given day about 60,000 or
70,000 candidates will take the examination.
“We have invited stakeholders to critique the
process because we don’t want to go in the
wrong direction. We are creating some ICT
facilities and we want our stakeholders,
prospective candidates, respected scholars,
institutions, civil societies to come together
and critique what we are doing, so that we
can be sure, before we go too far in a wrong
direction.
“This is with a view of harvesting good ideas
that could improve what we are doing. We
thought we are coming here to get dismantled,
all we have put together, but what we are
having are cheers that we can do it this way,
or amend it that way.
“I must be frank with you, I cannot promise
hitch free examination because we are testing
certain things. We are changing certain things.
We want to question the status quo and of
course, we expect a fight back by interest that
will be trampled upon.
“We are going to be as sincere as possible in
the direction we are going. We are going to be
as flexible as humanly possible. We are not
promising hitch free examination.
“We envisaged that there will be hitches here
and there, but they will not be
insurmountable. Rather than promising the
nation hitch free examination, we will be
promising a direction we will all be pleased
with.
“Initially there might be hiccups and of course
one would not have been appointed if it is
routine. I believe that I have been given a very
difficult job and that is why I’m promising that
it will be all smooth,” Oloyede said. |
Re: JAMB To Begin Sale Of 2017 UTME Form Is Out by Enapesunday(m): 6:27am On Feb 15, 2017 |
Re: JAMB To Begin Sale Of 2017 UTME Form Is Out by psucc(m): 6:56am On Feb 15, 2017 |
Op pls edit the caption |
Re: JAMB To Begin Sale Of 2017 UTME Form Is Out by oldfoolnigger(m): 7:46am On Feb 15, 2017 |
What sort of caption is this op? |
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