Exam body says Reps support computer based tests

chika ebuzor

March 24, 2016 9:19 AM

Benjamin also said the chairman of the house committee, denied asking the exam body to return to the pencil and paper exam method.

Joint Admission And Matriculation Board

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This is contrary to reports that said the House of Representatives ordered JAMB to scrap its computer-based Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Speaking on the new development, Benjamin said the Chairman of the House Committee on Basic Education, Mr Zakari Muhammed, during a visit to one of the CBT centres, said the system was part ot the Federal Government’s plan to improve the education sector.

The exam body’s spokesman, also said the lawmakers said “We the members of the House Committee on Basic Education have thrown our weight to the Computer-Based Test.

“We are convinced that the platform is in tandem with global best practices.”

Shedding more light on the re-scheduled exams, Benjamin said “Today, these candidates some of whom are sick are writing a rescheduled examination, but for the flexibility of CBT they would not have had this opportunity.’’

A 20-year-old girl, Joan Egemba, who went to sit for the recently concluded JAMB exams, was reportedly abducted on March 3, 2016, allegedly stabbed and strangled to death after being raped by some unknown men in the Ijebu Igbo area of Ogun State.

Watch video of the report below.

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chika ebuzor