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REPS WANTS JAMB CBT SUSPENDED

The House of Representatives on Thursday urged the Federal
Government to direct Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB)
to suspend the computer based 2016 Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination test.
The decision of the House was sequel to the adoption the prayers of a
motion brought under matters of urgent public importance by a
member, Hon. Oghene Egoh (PDP-Lagos).
The lawmaker while moving the motion said there was need for JAMB
to revert to the paper examination until the board was ready to
conduct a hitch-free Computer Based Test (CBT).
According to him, over a million candidates who sat for the computer
based UTME recorded various degrees of technical hitches.
The technical hitches, he said, jeopardised the candidates’ chances of
gaining admission into the universities.
His words: “Already serious admission problem is rocking the nation
because already JAMB receives huge allocation from Federal
Government every year.
“Yet they charge candidates all manner of fees and majority of the
children do not gain admission either because of the technical hitches
of the CBT or the post UTME introduced by various tertiary
institutions,” Egor said.
Egoh said that while some candidates are getting conflicting scores in
the ongoing exercise, others are complaining of malfunctioning
computers.
He said: “There were instances of double-option answers, computers
were malfunctioning and suddenly short down causing absurdity that
place some candidates in disadvantaged position.”
Aishatu Dukku (APC-Gombe) opined that JAMB was not ready for the
computer based option, adding that JAMB should “make it optional
for students on whether to use computer based or pen and paper.”
But a member, Mohammed Zakari (APC-Kwara) said students in
diaspora who are participating in the examination should be
considered.
According to him, the computer based option would enable students
abroad to participate in the examination.
Speaker Yakubu Dogara, in his ruling mandated the House Committee
on Education to liaise with Federal Ministry of Education to ensure
compliance and report back to the House within one week.
SOURCE thenationonline

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