JAMB seeks more CBT centres for 2015 exams

The Coordinator, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Lagos Zone, Alhaji Kamaldeen Adedeji, has urged stakeholders to collaborate with the board to prepare more centres for its Computer Predicated Test in 2015.

Adedeji told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Monday that the board had already commenced making moves that would ascertain there were equipped centres for the tests by 2015.

He noted, however, that the collaboration of stakeholders was indispensable to ascertain that enough centres with indispensable logistics were in place afore the 2015 examination.

JAMB had verbally expressed that it would in 2015 phase out the Paper/Pencil Test and the Dual Predicated Test modes of its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination

According to him, there is no going back on the board’s plan to migrate plenarily to the computer-predicated platform by 2015 as it has commenced inaugurating more centres across the country.

He verbally expressed, “This examination has come to stay because it is the future. We are not going to take anything to chance and that is why we have embarked on this project of building more centres for the examination in sundry states.

“What we have inserted place will pass for model centres that have all it takes to contain a sizeable number of candidates, as well as back up, to ascertain uninterrupted conduct of the examination.”

The JAMB official withal called on stakeholders to join hands with the examination body to establish more centres.

“All we are soliciting is to get stakeholders across the country to join hands with the board in building more of such centres to ascertain the conduct of a hitch-free examination.”