The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given 2015 as
the deadline for phasing out the paper and pencil method of examination
in the country. The Board advised prospective university candidates to make adequate
use of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities
that abound in the country ahead of the deadline.
JAMB registrar Prof Dibu Ojerinde made this disclosure in Akure, the
Ondo State capital, yesterday at the computer-based testing programme
organised by the examination body for secondary school students in the
town.
Ojerinde, who led other JAMB officials on the trip, told newsmen that
the purpose of the exercise was to make the students see that there was
no big deal about computer-based examinations.
Disclosing that the paper and pencil tests are gradually being phased
out, the JAMB registrar disclosed that all JAMB examinations will be
computer-based from year 2015.
While thanking the management of the Federal University of
Technology, Akure (FUTA), for allowing the board to use its facilities
for the advocacy test and the authorities of the secondary schools that
participated for releasing their students for the exercise, he expressed
happiness at the performance of the students.
“This shows to them that the computer-based test is easy as food they
take; in fact, anybody who can use a handset should be able to do the
test. As you can see this idea today, over 100 of them did it, even some
of their teachers participated and there is no problem at all.
“What we are saying is that the computer-based test is the key and it
is the way to go now. Things are changing, if you don’t change, you can
be changed; that is how life is, but what we are saying is that
technology has changed things and we are moving with the trend,” he
said.
Ojerinde who was of the view that the exercise was worthwhile, said
the 10 schools that participated have seen its importance, noting that
the train of the board would move to Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo
(ACE) from Tuesday (Today) “where we are going to do a little bit of
advocacy test but mainly,we are going for admission of candidates into
Polytechnics, Innovative Enterprises Institute (IEI) and we are
expecting about 350 to 400 candidates to be tested there for their
admission.
“We did that of UNIUYO about 4weeks ago, and the first set to do
admission into polytechnics through this means will take place at
Adeyemi, also that of the Colleges of Education will take place there.
While assuring that the security of the new electronic method of
examination would not be compromised, Ojerinde said, “You can only hack
what you know in technology and unfortunately many people don’t know
what we are doing here even the college we are using don’t know what we
are doing and we do not go through their server, therefore we transfer
it to the terminal and after the whole thing we take it back from our
terminal.
“The only way to hack this is if you have our server which is not
possible, bacause we have a procedure to protect our server. Hacking is
only possible through the internet okay,and this one is not going
through the internet at all.
Emphasising on the readiness of the board for computer based
examinations he stated that “2015 is the end of all paper test.
Everybody will have to do computer based test come 2015. Of cause
anybody who want to do JAMB in Akure must do it with computer, if you
don’t want computer based test you go else where, where there is no
computer, but since we have facilities here and we have also at Adeyemi
College, I don’t see any reason why we should have paper and pencil test
in any town near this place during the next examination.
“Though not all state capitals are good enough for this exercise in
terms of facilities, but wherever the facilities are, we will not
hesitate to make good use of them.
“For instance, Ondo is not the state capital of Ondo state but we are
lucky to Adeyemi College there, FUTA is in Akure, we also have Elizade
University at Ilara Mokin and we have Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Owo, so
the facilities are there and we are going to encourage many candidates
as possible to do computer based test, even if we have 3million
candidates in 2015, we have enough facilities for them.
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