The governing board of Nigeria’s National Examination Council (NECO) has announced the council will be introducing Computer-Based Test (CBT) for objective papers of its subsequent examinations.
This announcement was made by the chairman of NECO’s Governing Board, Dr Paddy Njoku. He said this on Thursday in Abuja.
He said: “We will introduce CBT in papers that need computer in the next exams, but some other subjects are either practical or essay; so you cannot put everything under CBT. Mathematics is compulsory; so the hall will be full; that is why we decided to inspect them today.“We do about four levels of monitoring; we have invigilators’ supervisors, security men and external monitors drawn from institutions of higher learning, who independently, monitor without getting involved in the administration of the examination.
“The board comes out to monitor and get direct assessment of the situation so that nobody tells stories and all these we do to ensure very strict control of our examination.’’ Njoku said that reports from all over the country indicated that the examination was going on fine.
On his part, Prof. Abdulrashid Garba, NECO Registrar, said that in 2016, all objective examinations of the body would be CBT. He said he had been visiting schools in various states, adding that the visit to Model Secondary School, Maitama, was the Board’s monitoring.“ In the schools visited so far, we have not seen anything that can cause disturbance; it has been complete compliance with the rules of the examination.
“All centres in Nigeria have been adequately secured; in special areas like Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states, extra security measure have also been taken.’’ Garba said that 975, 991 students were taking the examination nationwide. According to him, the results will be released 60 days from the date of the last paper which comes up on July 10.
