JAMB Releases Results Less Than 24 Hours After Commencement

This year’s, JAMB conducted its exams via its
programme- the Computer Based Test (CBT).
While monitoring the conduct of the examination at the
Board’s Computer Based Centre in Bwari Area Council of
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, the Registrar and Chief
Executive of JAMB, Dibu Ojerinde, revealed that 97,400
candidates who sat for the examination on the first day
already got their results through text messages.
Ojerinde explained that CBT was introduced because of
insecurity and high cost of producing writing materials
hitherto used for the Paper Pencil Test, as well as
transporting the materials across the country.

He noted that though the CBT process being deployed by
the board for the conduct of the examination was capital
intensive, stating that Nigerians stand to benefit more
from the system in a few years’ time.
He said as at Monday, the first day of the examination,
candidates got their result less than two hours after the
exams were concluded.
“In the final analysis, it is cost effective, it is going to be
cheaper with time but to start it, it is capital intensive.
Once we have all the computer systems now, in the next
10 to 15 years nobody would be complaining,” he said.
Also speaking at the monitoring exercise, JAMB’s Board
Chairman, Peter Eze, said the CBT can be adjudged as 90
per cent successful. Eze said the proposed general
election now scheduled for March 28 and April 11
affected preparations for the examination and made the
board to fix the examinations within 14 days before the
elections.

A candidate, Samanja James, who applied for Mass
Communications at the University of Jos said, “the new
examination method has made student all over the
country to be computer literate. The system is faster and
I can tell you that before now, many of us did not know
how to operate a system. But with the new CBT,
candidates have no choice than to learn it as fast as
possible since there is no alternative means of writing
the exams,” she said.
It would be recalled that officials of the Benue state
Police Command arrested not less than 50 candidates of
JAMB in the state for violent protests and stoning of
security officials.