Computer illiteracy a challenge to CBT JAMB candidates

The board’s officer at the Federal Polytechnic Bida centre, Mr Garba Ango, said the only challenge they faced was that some students were not computer literate. He said although the candidates were informed that it was a computer-based test, the time was too short for them (students) to prepare themselves. Ango noted that for candidates […]

The board’s officer at the Federal Polytechnic Bida centre, Mr Garba Ango, said the only challenge they faced was that some students were not computer literate.
He said although the candidates were informed that it was a computer-based test, the time was too short for them (students) to prepare themselves.
Ango noted that for candidates to pass the exams, they had to be computer literate and study hard.
He also said any student that failed to meet up with his scheduled time would miss the test because students were always advised to be at the examination centre 30 minutes before the commencement of the test.
About 540 candidates were expected to write the CBT examination at the centre every day in three sections to enable it accommodate them.
He said the CBT was introduced in order to curb examination malpractices that were common with the paper-based test.
Ango explained that communication during the examination could be useless because students offering same subject could not sit together and also their paper types were different.
A candidate who only gave her name as Hilda said the examination should have been paper-based test as most of the candidates were not adequately prepared.
Charity writes from Mass Comm. Dept.  Federal Polytechnic, Bida.