JAMB releases 68,000 withheld results at last!

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has

released the results of more than 68,000 candidates that wrote the

Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on April 27.

This was disclosed on Saturday by the JAMB Lagos Zonal Coordinator,

Kamaldeen Oladeji.

Mr. Oladeji said the results, initially seized on account of biometric

verification related issues, have all been released. He advised

affected candidates, who had protested the development recently in

Lagos, Kano, and other places to check their results on the board's

website.

A total of 1,629,102 candidates applied to sit for the Paper Pencil

Test (PPT),while 15,008 candidates applied for the Dual Based Test

(DBT), bringing the number of candidates to 1,644,110.

The results of over 1.5 million candidates were released on May 3.

No going back on computer based exams

Mr. Oladeji also said that there was no going back on the newly

introduced Computer Based Test (CBT).

The zonal coordinator, who supervised the CBT of the Unified Tertiary

MatriculationExamination at University ofLagos, said this in an

interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.

A total of 100,000 candidates would be taking the examination across

56 centres in the country.

The examination, which is the first of its kind conducted by the

board, is expected to come to an end on June 1.

The zonal coordinator noted that if the country was to compete

favourably with other climes, especially with regards to technological

advancement, all hands must be on deck to support the initiative.

According to him, the adoption of the CBT will eventually assist in

enhancing ICT skills amongstthe citizenry.

"This CBT examination has come to stay, once we get it right, others

will follow because as you can see, our education system is gradually

transiting to e-education.

"This means, we should be talking e-learning, e-teaching, e-research

across all the various levels of education in our system.

"With ICT, we can achieve alot in no time, but the only challenge

currently is that the computer penetration and infrastructural backing

is still very low in our society,'' he said.

Mr. Oladeji implored stakeholders in the private sector to strive to

improve infrastructure and internet penetration across the country.

"The private sector must wake up to their Corporate Social

Responsibility (CSR), in ensuring that they tag along this line and

seek ways of partnering with government in achieving this feat," he

said.

According to him, education is a fundamental issue and must not be

left to government alone to tackle, adding that if this was

accomplished; the society will be the better for it.

"Government and private operators should partner in such a way that

the CSR should be 80 per cent education and 20 per cent others.

"When we talk of human personnel capacity, especially in respect to

ICT, we have it and I want to assure you that by 2014, we might likely

not have anymore Paper Pencil Test.

"The examination will be reduced to only the Dual Based Testing and

the on-going CBT until 2015, when it will be a full blown CBT with the

others completely phased out.

"I also want to state that assoon as the CBT mode fully takes shape,

other examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO and others would follow,

as the introduction of e-testing is already a national policy," he

said.

Mr. Oladeji said that if there was sound and qualitative education in

place, there would be no militancy or anyinsurgent group holding

citizens and government to ransom.

"Education promotes egalitarianism. If we want an egalitarian society,

we must be educated," he said.

The zonal coordinator said that the introduction of the CBT would also

eliminate all forms of examination malpractice and assist candidates

to develop skills in ICT.

The supervisor said that results of the 350 candidates, who wrote the

examination at the University of Lagos, would be released within four

hours after its completion.

He said that the results, which ought to have been released

immediately after the test, were intentionally delayed, to avoid any

attackon the systems by candidates who did not perform well.

"We are delaying the results slightly because we do not want the

candidates to attack the system in a feat of anger, if they see their

results instantly and are not pleased with their performance.

"The results will be made available to them through short message

service (SMS) or any other means, but it will sure get to them same

day," he said.

(NAN)

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