UTME-JAMB CBT Endorsed: President Jonathan Endorses JAMB's CBT

President Goodluck Jonathan has just endorsed the Computer Based Test (CBT) which was introduced by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in the conduct of her Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

President Goodluck Jonathan who was said to have given a thumbs up the progress which was made by the Board of Directors in administering her test through Computer Based Test (CBT) and the consolidation efforts of the new examination regime was optimistic that the introduction would revolutionize the education sector.

According to the Public Relations Officer of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Mr. Fabian Benjamin who in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday night, disclosed to the general public, that the President who dropped this hint at The Netherlands (Holland) when he met with the officials of the country’s examination body, which is otherwise called CITO and JAMB, pointed out that his administration places much premium on qualitative education, expansion of access and making the sector a model among comity of great nations.

Mr Fabian also promised the Nigerian public that the JAMB UTME Board has enough centres to conduct the Computer Based Test, and that congestion won’t be a problem in the forth coming examination.

The Public relations officer also went further to stressed the need for closer collaboration with the CITO whom he said has garnered over ten (10) years experience in the conduct of e-testing and other forms of electronic innovations in the administration of public examinations.

Also speaking on the matter, the Registrar of JAMB, Professor ‘Dibu Ojerinde who spoke about this, while briefing the President at the gathering noted that the collaboration has put the JAMB Board in a better position to administer the test saying that though the experience has not been without challenges but the Board was poised to confront the challenges frontally and convert the seemingly challenges to opportunities.

Professor Ojerinde also explained to the President that last year, the JAMB Board had about Fifty-Five (55) centres with only about a hundred thousand candidates for the Computer Based Test.

However, with the success of the test last year more of the UTME candidates have indicated interest in the CBT. He said the exercise this year will be taking place in about One Hundred and Fifty-Three (153) Centres with over Six Hundred Thousand candidates across the nation.

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