JAMB to allow CBT and PPT mode to co-exist

Since the introduction of computer-based JAMB tests three years ago, the level of anxiety around admission into tertiary institutions in the country has increased enormously. While some see it as a demonstration that the country is embracing ‘modernity,’ particularly technology, others, possibly the majority, regard it as adding to the uncertainties parents and pupils experience annually.


The acknowledgement by the registrar of JAMB that some difficulties were experienced in the 2015 examination may have confirmed the suspicion by those familiar with practices in other parts of the world that the shift to computer-based examination was nothing more than a bureaucratic sleight of hand. It distracts from failure to address problems posed by the pencil-paper mode rather than being a policy driven by concern for improving admission into the nation’s tertiary institutions.

In spite of the registrar’s promise to overcome the problems, the House of Representatives has advised JAMB to consider restoring the pencil-paper mode to co-exist with its three-year-old computer-based examination.

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