The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned that candidates that failed to provide their profile codes and e-PINs as vended from the board’s USSD (55019) or (66019) on the mobile phones on which they had created such profile codes on demand at Computer Based Test (CBT) centres, risk not being registered.
The examination body said the instruction has become necessary to avoid perennial problems of identity mix-up, mutilation of candidates’ details and the prevention of unnecessary litigation by candidates who failed to provide the needed information on soft copy.
JAMB is disgusted that candidates rather than display these essential documents on soft copy at CBT centres during registration often do so on pieces of papers only to turn around and accuse the examination body of negligence and entering conflict details in their registration particulars.
Adherence to this mandatory requirement, the board would equally nib in the board the issue of identity theft which it says has become rampant among some candidates who recruit examination cheats worldwide to compromise the examinations.
The warning, which was contained in its latest bulletin, the well – thought – out measures would ensure the accuracy and reliability of candidates’ records, and equally saves the board huge-man hour and resources often expended on needless data correction.
Also, the board has charged operators of CBT centres to ensure strict adherence to this directive warning that failure to do so would attract stern response against them.
Already, the board has swung into action by wielding the big stick against one of the centres for failing to comply with its directive for all prospective candidates to display their profile codes and e-PINs.
Recently, a centre Total Child Computer and CBT Centre was suspended for allegedly registering candidates with e-PINs copied manually and presented by candidates as against the mandatory display of the profile code and vended e-PIN as received on their phones.
According to the board, such an act of violation was capable of causing mix-up of candidates’ bio-data, creating an oasis for identity theft as well as creating avenues for its transparent examinations to be compromised.
