The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board
will, on July 14, hold its 2015 policy meeting to
commence the process of this year’s admission
exercise.
Over 1.4 million candidates sat for this year’s
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in
March, using the computer-based Test mode.
A statement by the JAMB Public Relations Officer,
Fabian Benjamin, on Monday said the meeting
would define the criteria for this year’s admission.
He said, “This meeting defines the criteria for the
2015 admission. The cut-off point is arrived at
after an extensive deliberation by all stakeholders,
which include vice-chancellors, provosts of
colleges of education and rectors of polytechnics,
monotechnics, innovative enterprise institutions
and other stakeholders.
“The exercise is interesting because of the
success witnessed with the first full-blown
Computer Based Test. The exercise has proved
that our education system still has hope. Do not
forget that in any educational system, world over,
the examination process makes the difference.
The goal of national development through
education becomes like a mirage if examination
bodies get it wrong. Today, the board has got it
right.”
According to him, JAMB’s CBT will also
contribute largely to the success of the crusade
against corruption, as the fight cannot succeed if
examination malpractice continues in the
educational system.
Benjamin added that the eradication of
malpractice in examinations would go a long way
in addressing some of the challenges in the
country.
Until the conduct of the full-blown CBT, JAMB
had combined it with the option of Paper Pencil
Test and Dual Based Test.
The exercise took place for over two weeks in 389
centres in Nigeria and seven foreign centres,
including Accra in Ghana, Buea in Republic of
Benin, London in United Kingdom, Jeddah in
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Johannesburg in
South Africa.
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