Candidates of the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examinations, UTME who are
experts in guessing answers to questions
during examinations, should better study hard
to have a mastery of their subjects, as the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,
JAMB, has acquired a software that reduces
the tendency for students to guess accurately
during examination.
Speaking exclusively with Vanguard on phone,
JAMB’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Fabian
Benjamin said JAMB has invested heavily in
training and acquisition of some softwares that
are specifically designed for examinations.
Benjamin's words; ‘’Technically, what we were
using before to test students was what we
called Classical Test Theory , but now we have
adopted what we call Item Response Theory.
The difference is that the Item Response
Theory reduces the percentage of
guessing.The tendency for students to guess
and guess right is minimal with this software."
With the introduction of CBT and the software
in place, Fabian maintained that it will be
difficult for candidates to engage in
examination malpractice.
Besides, for proper efficiency in service delivery
by staff of JAMB, Fabian disclosed that over
one hundred staff were sent abroad for local
and international training on computer based
test. ‘’This year, we have sent over 100 staff
for training abroad for international and local
training to make them grounded in the art of
computer based test,’’ he said.
Computer based test
Dr. Fabian, who disclosed that over 500
centres across the country have been fully
equipped with state-of -the -art facilities,
pointed out that it is an improvement on the
400 centres of 2015 UTME.
According to him, each of the 400 centres
used in 2015 UTME had a carrying capacity of
150 candidates, while those for this year have
a carrying capacity of 300 candidates.
The protest: Dr. Benjamin, however lamented
the situation where some students, who were
supposed to have registered and adequately
prepared for the examination slated for
Monday, were busy protesting for an extension
of registration.
‘’Where were they when the portal for
registration opened seven months ago? Why
are they calling for an extension of registration
date when registration has been closed?"
He urged stakeholders not to allow students
put pressure on JAMB to extend the time of
registration, adding that if JAMB bends to their
demands, it will never have a standard in this
country.
Meanwhile, over 1.5million UTME candidates,
according to Fabian have registered for the
examination slated to commence on Monday.
Unlike last year when many candidates
complained of difficulties in registration,
transfer of candidates from one state to
another, this year, candidates have little or no
complain.
Some of the candidates interviewed by
Vanguard could not point out any area of
difficulty that emanated from JAMB. One of the
candidates who claimed JAMB transferred her
to Warri instead of Lagos for examination,
when properly interrogated, confessed that she
picked Warri during registration when it was
apparent that Lagos centres were full.
Our findings from candidates further revealed
that many of them who were posted to other
states other than states of their choice, either
caused it by mistakenly clicking on the state
during registration or when they discovered
that their state of choice was full due to late
registration, they had no option than to chose
any available state.
Tertiary institutions
The examination which will run for 10 days,
will leave candidates to jostle for the 800,000
admission slots in Nigeria’s tertiary
institutions.
CBT: While encouraging students to come to
the reality of computer-based testing as the
most effective way of conducting examination
in the 21st century, JAMB registrar, Professor
Dibu Ojerinde said: “The idea of the CBT is
that after 30 minutes of the examination and
the candidate leaves the exam hall, a graphical
result of the test will be sent to the
candidate’s mobile phone number, while the
specific scores will be released within the
period of four days.”
Comparing the statistics of early years of
UTME candidates’ registration, we discovered
a steady decline since 2013 when the CBT was
introduced.
In 2013, about 1.7 million people registered for
UTME, in 2014, the number fell to 1.6 million,
while about 1.4 million registered in 2015
examination. However, this year the numbers
of candidates who registered has increased to
over 1.5 million.
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Title : JAMB DEPLOYS ANTI GUESS SOFTWARE FOR CBT
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