Every year, thousands of students participate in the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to gain admission into
Nigerian Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education. Going with the
population of students taking part in this examination yearly it is quite
difficult and challenging for both the examination body and the students.
Despite the efforts by the examination body to better conduct the exam there is
however reoccurring problems example insufficient materials that will later lead
to missing results and scripts. Now the good news is JAMB has announced that
candidates seating for UTME 2013 /2014 will have 3 testing options. Registrar
of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Dibu Ojerinde
announced on the 3rd October 2012, that three(3) options would be introduced
for the 2013/2014 JAMB/UTME.
The first
is Computer Based Testing (CBT), both questions and answers would be on
computer. This option will allow candidates write UTME using a computer and
know their result almost immediately. Prof. Dibu Ojerinde said candidates who
chose the CBT option would get their scores a few minutes after writing the
examination on their mobile cell phones.
The
second option is Dibu Based Test (DBT) Where questions would be presented on
computers and answers would be on paper. This is the computer-paper testing
allowing candidates to view questions on computer but answer on paper. This
option was named after the JAMB registrar Prof. Dibu Ojerinde
The final
option is Paper and Pencil Testing (PPT), where the good old pencil and paper
will be used. UTME candidates are expected to choose one of the options.
According to the registrar, the introduction of CBT will improve the marking
system and effectively produce the raw scores of each candidate after the exam,
the same day. He also noted that this method will reduce the issues of exam
malpractice and by 2015 only computer based testing will be available to UTME candidates.
Expy Multimedia will soon come up with better advice for students on this
especially in making the right choice of the exam option to go for. Knowing
that because JAMB is just starting off these new systems there is a possibility
it will not go down well with some students and the systems will not be
faultless.
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