Nigeria’s Joint Admissions and Matriculation board (JAMB) has conducted an advocacy Computer-Based Test for 140 secondary school students drawn from 14 schools in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The board said the reason for the exercise is to create awareness on next year’s phasing out of paper tests.
According to the Director Test Administration of the Board, Yusuf Lawan, the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination will be conducted using the Computer-Based method from next year, he said JAMB will use the feedback it is getting from advocacy exercises to improve the system before next year.
“JAMB is trying its best to ensure that the test doesn’t discriminate against people in rural areas as all their concerns and problem encountered in such places last year and this year will be taken care of,” he said.
He said the test is very efficient and gives timely results. He said candidates will get their result within two hours after the test.
He said the paper test will be conducted on the 12th of April while the Computer-Based Test will hold for two weeks starting from the 17th of May.
” I prefer the CBT (Computer-Based Test) to the paper test. I think it is fast,” said Ibrahim Saddam of Federal Government Boys College, Apo.
