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Calling a Spade a Spade!

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There has been a great deal of complaints about

the 2016 CBT. The complaints being that quite a

few students did not pass the exams as

expected.

We live in a country where, unfortunately,

students and their parents alike want the easy

way out of everything:

a) They would prefer handouts to copying notes.

b) They would prefer reading short notes to

reading the full novel for an exam.

c) They would prefer to hire mercenaries to pass

their exams.

d) They would much rather have someone do

term papers and group assignments.

In trying to find the reason for the outcry on the

past 2016 JAMB CBT two main reasons are

deducible.

The first reason I deduce based on the

complaints is that instructions, for the most part,

were not followed. As with most exams, there

are instructions and we need to adhere to them

throughout the exam.

The advantage of the computer test is that with

the computer what you input is what you get.

In other words, the test will not act contrary to

what you ask it to do. Going further in these

tests I really advise we stick to the rules.

Secondly, and the saddest of all reasons is that

we are upset that we cannot "fix" the tests.

There have been quite a few owners of CBT

centres and parents complaining bitterly. The

truth is our children MUST read to pass. Why

would JAMB be blamed? The syllabus is there;

past questions are there; your children's schools

or lessons are there so where is JAMB in all

this.

The suspicion is that many of us did not know

that: no student had the same sequence of

questions. What candidate 100 had as his/her

number 2 question could be candidate 090's

number 50 question. Light bulb moment… If you

(hypothetically) decided to stand at candidate

001's computer and start calling out the

answers, there will be a total failure in the

centre.

We write tests for foreign schools and accept

whatever result comes but here it is a different

ball game. It is not a question of the marker

drinking or falling asleep while marking your

papers. The computer marks your test and gives

the score of what you filled. We CANNOT

manipulate in any way!

The JAMB CBT is a step in the right direction.

We need to give our support to this great

innovation that is putting us into the present

age.