Jamb Releases withheld Result 2013. The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it has released the results of more than
68,000 candidates that wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME)on April 27.This was disclosed on Saturday by the JAMB
Lagos Zonal Coordinator, Kamaldeen Oladeji.Mr. Oladeji said the
results, initially seized on account of biometric verification related
issues, have all been released.
He advised affected candidates,
who had protested the development recently in Lagos, Kano, and other
places to check their results on the board’s website.
A total of
1,629,102 candidates applied to sit for the Paper Pencil Test (PPT),
while 15,008 candidates applied for the Dual Based Test (DBT), bringing
the number of candidates to 1,644,110.
The results of over 1.5
million candidates were released on May 3.No going back on computer
based exams Mr. Oladeji also said that there was no going back on the
newly introduced Computer Based Test (CBT).
The zonal
coordinator, who supervised the CBT of the Unified Tertiary
Matriculation Examination at University of Lagos, said this in an
interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Lagos.A
total of 100,000 candidates would be taking the examination across 56
centres in the country.
The examination, which is the first of
its kind conducted by the board, is expected to come to an end on June
1.The zonal coordinator noted that if the country was to compete
favourably with other climes, especially with regards to technological
advancement, all hands must be on deck to support the
initiative.According to him, the adoption of the CBT will eventually
assist in enhancing ICT skills amongst the citizenry.
“This CBT
examination has come to stay, once we get it right, others will follow
because as you can see, our education system is gradually transiting to
e-education.“This means, we should be talking e-learning, e-teaching,
e-research across all the various levels of education in our
system.“With ICT, we can achieve a lot in no time, but the only
challenge currently is that the computer penetration and infrastructural
backing is still very low in our society,’’ he said.
Mr. Oladeji
implored stakeholders in the private sector to strive to improve
infrastructure and internet penetration across the country.“The private
sector must wake up to their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), in
ensuring that they tag along this line and seek ways of partnering with
government in achieving this feat,” he said.
According to him,
education is a fundamental issue and must not be left to government
alone to tackle, adding that if this was accomplished; the society will
be the better for it.“Government and private operators should partner in
such a way that the CSR should be 80 per cent education and 20 per cent
others.
“When we talk of human personnel capacity, especially in
respect to ICT, we have it and I want to assure you that by 2014, we
might likely not have any more Paper Pencil Test.“The examination will
be reduced to only the Dual Based Testing and the on-going CBT until
2015, when it will be a full blown CBT with the others completely phased
out.
“I also want to state that as soon as the CBT mode fully
takes shape, other examination bodies such as WAEC, NECO and others
would follow, as the introduction of e-testing is already a national
policy,” he said.
Mr. Oladeji said that if there was sound and
qualitative education in place, there would be no militancy or any
insurgent group holding citizens and government to ransom.“Education
promotes egalitarianism. If we want an egalitarian society, we must be
educated,” he said.
The zonal coordinator said that the
introduction of the CBT would also eliminate all forms of examination
malpractice and assist candidates to develop skills in ICT.The
supervisor said that results of the 350 candidates, who wrote the
examination at the University of Lagos, would be released within four
hours after its completion.
He said that the results, which ought
to have been released immediately after the test, were intentionally
delayed, to avoid any attack on the systems by candidates who did not
perform well.
We are delaying the results slightly because we do
not want the candidates to attack the system in a feat of anger, if they
see their results instantly and are not pleased with their performance.
“The
results will be made available to them through short message service
(SMS) or any other means, but it will sure get to them same day,” he
said.(NAN)
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