Candidates involved in the ongoing Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Computer Based Test (CBT) taking place in Owerri have experienced some problems.
Apart from the fact that some candidates could not arrive their centres on time due to long distances from their bases or places of residence or inability to locate their examination centres before last Saturday when the CBT started, some candidates were faced with the problems of not having questions or answers provided by the examination body.
According to a supervisor at the New KK Computer Centre for Digital Learning Site and Services Owerri, Abdulmalik Adio, who spoke to our correspondent, some candidates who took Government and Biology had problems of no answers last Saturday, while on Monday it was the case of no questions for Physics candidates. He said his job was to note the problems and get back to JAMB to take necessary actions.
On the issue of posting candidates to areas far from their residences, the centre administrator, Prof. Aloy Onyeka said “it has been JAMB discretion over the years to post them to any area from their choice of exam town. They can be posted to Orlu or Okigwe or any town within Imo state, if their choice is a town within the state and there has to be prior information on the location and date at least, a week before the exam date for the candidates to locate their exam centres.”
On the challenges being encountered as a result of conducting JAMB examinations, Prof Onyeka, who has been conducting the examination for the past five years now, said the remunerations from the body were nothing to write home about, especially since the body recently introduced some innovations as against what was the case before now.
