The Arewa Youth Consultative Discussion board has known as for the cancellation of the proposed Pc-Primarily based Check format within the forthcoming West African Examinations Council examinations within the nation.
In accordance with the discussion board, introducing such a mode of examination will end in mass failure for college kids, notably in rural areas the place pc expertise are scarce or utterly absent.
The PUNCH studies that the West African Examinations Council introduced that it had ditched the paper and pencil check mannequin and has adopted the Pc-Primarily based Check mode for the conduct of the Senior Faculty Certificates Examination.
This was contained in an announcement signed by the performing head of the Public Affairs Unit of WAEC, Moyosola Adesina.
She claimed that it was in step with world finest practices and knowledgeable all its stakeholders that it had concluded plans emigrate its WASSCE for Personal Candidates Examination Diets from Paper and Pencil Assessments to Pc Primarily based Examinations.
The Nationwide President of AYCF, Yerima Shettima, in an announcement launched in Kaduna on Friday, mentioned the CBT exams ought to have been optionally available, permitting candidates to decide on between the normal pen-and-paper format and the computer-based strategy.
This, he argued, would have given college students the chance to go for the format they have been most comfy with and able to trying efficiently.
Shettima added that analysis performed by the discussion board in chosen northern states comparable 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 faculties, the place pc expertise have been usually not taught.
He mentioned, “Even the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board – CBT examination has positioned underprivileged college students in a predicament as they battle to reply questions in an unfamiliar format.
“Many college students who failed the CBT-based JAMB exams final yr argued that their failures have been a results of systemic failures, together with inadequate services or community failures throughout the exams.
“Moreover, a scarcity of correct and sufficient pc expertise, coupled with outdated desktop computer systems that aren’t correctly maintained by CBT centres, additional exacerbated the state of affairs.
“Because the exams are timed, these delays considerably hinder the efficiency of scholars who in any other case possess adequate data of the content material.”
He, due to this fact, known as on the Ministry of Training, Jama’atu Nasril Islam, Christian Affiliation of Nigeria, Nationwide Affiliation of Nigerian College students and different related Civil Society Organisations to unite and reject the deliberate CBT exams.
He famous that the decision turned crucial to forestall an enormous failure fee amongst college students who deserved honest and equal alternatives for achievement.
“The AYCF stays dedicated to selling high quality schooling, equitable examination processes, and the general development of schooling in Nigeria. We stand able to work collaboratively with all stakeholders to search out appropriate options that guarantee a stage enjoying subject for all college students,” he added.