JAMB, WAEC, NECO Officials Meet

January 23, 2017
JAMB, WAEC, NECO Officials Meet

JAMB, WAEC, NECO Officials Meet

By Modupe Gbadeyanka

Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it is currently meeting with Heads of other examination conducting agencies in Nigeria to avoid clash of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) with WAEC, NECO or others.

Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede made this known in Abuja when a delegation of the Education Correspondents Association of Nigeria, Abuja Chapter, (ECAN) led by its Chairman, Mr Chuks Ukwuatu paid him a courtesy visit.

Professor Oloyede who stated this as one of the major reasons why the sales of the forms for year 2017 UTME has not commenced said the board, putting the interest of students at heart and considering their level of preparation for the admission exams decided to work with other exam conducting agencies to avoid undue pressure on students.

He hinted that the sales of the 2017 UTME forms will soon commence but no particular date has been fixed for its commencement saying that the Board wants to ensure proper logistics are in place.

“I can say clearly that I don’t know when because what we want to do is to make sure that things that ought to be in place are in place, I cannot tell you exactly when it will be but I know it will be sooner than later” Professor Oloyede said.

“I am meeting with other examination bodies, we don’t want a situation where WAEC is going on, NECO and other ones are going on and students are being put under pressure to have to surrender one to another; we really want to avoid this”

“The second reason is when we hold our examination when students are not totally ready, you have high rate of failure and our examination is not an achievement examinations, it is a ranking examination and that is why we are saying it is wrong to extend the validity because the test itself is a once and for all test, so we believe that we should work together with other examination bodies and make sure that we take as much as possible the interest of the student into consideration” the JAMB Registrar explained.

Speaking on the introduction of CCTV Cameras for monitoring JAMB examinations, The Registrar said that the board has considered the use of the facility imperative as no Computer Based Test, CBT can be conducted without the use of CCTV cameras.

Prof Oloyede added that it will serve as a preventive measure noting that if a candidate is not caught in the act of malpractices, he /she can also been caught after exams thereby strengthening the quality of the test.

“We believe certain things should be done, with our CBT I am not aware of anywhere in the World where you conduct CBT without CCTV cameras, believe if you are not caught during examinations you can be caught after, this is one instrument we have been telling our CBT operators that we will not compromise and we have already asked them to provide these instruments ahead of the next exams”

“These are the reasons why we are holding off the sales of the 2017 UTME Forms” the Registrar added.

On further strengthening of the Computer Based Test , Professor Oloyede said certain fine tuning are taking place as the board is dealing with key technical problems but added that the next Admission examination will be given the best despite particular changes currently taking place.

“There would still be hitches and there would be problems in strengthening of CBT but I believe that to maintain the status quo is easy but if you want to effect changes of the status quo there would certainly be problems and of course these problems are surmountable.”

Modupe Gbadeyanka

Modupe Gbadeyanka is a fast-rising journalist with Business Post Nigeria. Her passion for journalism is amazing. She is willing to learn more with a view to becoming one of the best pen-pushers in Nigeria. Her role models are the duo of CNN's Richard Quest and Christiane Amanpour.

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