The Arewa Youth Consultative Discussion board has known as for the cancellation of the proposed computer-based take a look at format within the forthcoming West African Senior Faculty Certificates Examinations within the nation.
In keeping with the discussion board, such a mode of examination, if allowed, will lead to mass failure for college kids, significantly in rural areas of northern states the place laptop abilities are scarce or fully absent.
The Nationwide President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, in a press release launched in Kaduna on Friday, asserted that the CBT exams ought to have been optionally available, permitting candidates to decide on between the standard pen-and-paper format and the computer-based strategy.
This, he argued, would have allowed college students to go for the format they had been most comfy with and able to trying efficiently.
Shettima added that analysis performed by the Discussion board in chosen northern states equivalent to Zamfara, Jigawa, Taraba, Adamawa, Nasarawa, and Plateau, revealed that the CBT exams had persistently led to deceptive failure charges amongst college students attending public colleges, the place laptop abilities had been usually not taught.
He acknowledged, “Even the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board CBT exams have positioned underprivileged college students in a predicament as they battle to reply questions in a format they’re unfamiliar with.
“Many college students who failed the CBT-based JAMB exams final 12 months argued that their failures had been a results of systemic failures, together with inadequate services or community failures in the course of the exams. Moreover, a scarcity of correct and enough laptop abilities, coupled with outdated desktop computer systems that aren’t correctly maintained by CBT facilities additional exacerbate the scenario.”
He famous that the decision grew to become crucial to forestall a large failure fee amongst college students who deserved truthful and equal alternatives for achievement.