House of Representatives directed the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) to return to the former pencil-paper method
in conducting examinations for candidates seeking admission into
tertiary institutions.
The House of Representative on Thursday, March 17 directed the Joint
Admissions Matriculation Examination, JAMB to discontinue the Computer
Based Test, CBT. The House said “technical flaws” recorded in the latest
computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination had exposed
JAMB’s lack of capacity to handle the computer-based tests.
The House also wants the examinations body to run both the pencil-
paper examination and CBT for candidates who should choose how they want
to write exam.
The resolution was passed after a lawmaker from Lagos State, Mr.
Oghene Emma-Egoh, had moved a motion on the “conflicting” scores of
candidates who took the examination.
He said: “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.” He cited instances of conflicting scores
which was occasioned by technical flaws.
He said: “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.” Citing another instance, he said
Ibrahim Shawulu from Kogi state who scored 399 out of 400, but in less
than 24 hours another result surfaced reducing Shawulu’s score to 199.
Other law makers while supporting insisted the CBT be made optional for the students.
The House which approved of the motion after it was put to a voice
vote by the Speaker, Yakubu Dogara also mandated its committee on
education to investigate the matter and report back to the House for
further legislative input.
Saturday, 19 March 2016
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