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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.