The Joint Admission and matriculation board JAMB has resulted to a computer base test as against the regular paper and pencil pattern, in conducting the yearly examination .
The registrar and the CEO of JAMB Mr Dibu Ojerinde has confirmed that 97,400 who parttake in the examination on the first day have already received their result through SMS.
Mr Ojerinde said the Computer base test is capital intensive,but the future benefit to Nigerian will be more
The Ceo made comparison between CBT and Paper base test at computer monitoring center in Abuja,he cited the high cost of producing the writing material and insecurity in Transporting the material across the country.
“Normally, for candidates to receive their results, it should not take more than two hours, but as at yesterday (Tuesday), which was the first day of the examination, about 97,400 candidates got their results before the end of the day.
“In the final analysis, it’s cost effective; it’s going to be cheaper with time but to start it, it’s capital intensive. Once we have all the computer systems now in the next 10 to 15 years, nobody would be complaining.
“In security prone areas, of course we got a report from Yobe that the examination is going on smoothly, same thing was reported for Yola and Maiduguri.
“However, if we had resorted to using pick-ups to carry things up and down, we would have been in trouble; they will be following us as if we are carrying money, but now the questions goes straight into the centre portal system; nobody knows when it gets in or out.”
Meanwhile, the board’s Chairman, Peter Eze, who also participated in the monitoring exercise, said the CBT could be adjudged as 90 per cent successful.
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