The Parents Teachers Association (PTA) in Plateau state has pleaded with the
Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) to offer more computer
tutorials for rural candidates who may not be conversant with the computer
systems to write examination.
Mr Sylvester Yakubu,
the Plateau PTA chairman who made this known to our correspondent in Jos recently.
In his request, he said
some rural schools may have computer systems while some may never have come
across a computer system talk more of operating it. It is a welcome development
that JAMB has adopted the Computer-Based Test, but they have to temper justice
with mercy toward improving deplorable stage of educational system.
According to him, some
of these rural candidates have never seen computer systems talk more of
operating one while; some may have computers in their schools without
operators.
Pointing out that when
they enter the examination hall they become nervous and may not be composed to
answer questions well because of anxiety, he explained.
The PTA official said
he supervised centres in Shendam, Qua'anpan and Mikang LGs for the Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Exams (UTME ) and there was no record of system
failures.
Meanwhile, Mr Yakubu
Jekada, the Plateau Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Coordinator
said that CBT is not complex and can be written successfully by candidates from
the hinterland.
There has been no
record of students having challenges of using the computer systems because we
made sure before the commencement of the UTME, a 5-10 minutes demonstration of
how to use the systems is done. Once you can operate a phone you can operate
the computer systems, there is no technicality involved, he explained.
He said the candidates
at the rural centres will not be a disadvantaged because officials will
replicate the demonstration to them also. A candidate who have never used a
computer system came from Wase LG in 2014, wrote the exams successfully and he
is now in the University of Jos, and there are many others,’’ he explained.
Our report gathered
that no case of candidate misbehavior was reported by the security agencies as
they were being screened and no contraband material was also reported taken to
the centres by candidates.
Mrs Naomi Chisak, the
Public Relation Officer, NSCDC Plateau Command said 500 officers were deployed
for the exams at the 18 CBT centres, those on standby and in mufti, man
security survillance in all Centres.
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