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Thursday 12 March 2015

97,400 Candidates Receive UTME Results On Exam Day

PIC. 2. CANDIDATES WRITING UNIFIED TERTIARY MATRICULATION EXAMINATION   (UTME) IN ABUJA ON TUESDAY (10/3/15). 1256/10/3/2015/HF/BJO/CH/AIN/NAN

As more candidates take the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) nationwide, Registrar and Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Dibu Ojerinde, has confirmed that 97,400 candidates, who took the examination on the first day, already have their results delivered to them through Short Message Service (SMS).
Ojerinde, who noted that the Computer Based Testing (CBT) process being deployed by the board for the conduct of the examination was capital intensive, however, said Nigerians stand to benefit more from the system in future.

While monitoring the conduct of the examination at the board’s Computer Based Centre, Bwari, Abuja, he cited issues of insecurity and high cost of producing writing materials hitherto used for Paper Pencil Test (PPT) as well as transporting the materials across the country as some of the reasons why the board settled for CBT.
His said: “Normally, for candidates to receive their results, it should not take more than two hours, but as at yesterday (Tuesday), which was the first day of the examination, about 97,400 candidates got their results before the end of the day.
“In the final analysis, it’s cost effective; it’s going to be cheaper with time but to start it, it’s capital intensive. Once we have all the computer systems now in the next 10 to 15 years, nobody would be complaining.
“In security prone areas, of course we got a report from Yobe that the examination is going on smoothly, same thing was reported for Yola and Maiduguri.
“However, if we had resorted to using pick-ups to carry things up and down, we would have been in trouble; they will be following us as if we are carrying money, but now the questions goes straight into the centre portal system; nobody knows when it gets in or out.”
Meanwhile, the board’s Chairman, Peter Eze, who also participated in the monitoring exercise, said the CBT could be adjudged as 90 per cent successful.
He added that 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 fourteen days before the elections.

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