The choice to scrap the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) is an extraordinary help to Nigerian college confirmation seekers and we wholeheartedly laud it. Pastor of Education Malam Adamu reported the choice at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board's (JAMB) partners meeting which as of late held in Abuja to decide the cut-off imprint for imminent tertiary foundation understudies looking for affirmation in the 2016/2017 scholarly session.
The Minister said it was counter-gainful for possibility to compose post-UTME in the wake of having sat for and passed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) sorted out by JAMB. The pastor had solicited agents from colleges and other tertiary foundations present at the partners meeting regardless of whether they were fulfilled by the behavior and aftereffects of UTME. They all said UTME as directed by JAMB was agreeable. The clergyman then said, "Following the colleges are fulfilled by what JAMB is doing, there is no premise for post-UTME." He included that it was not proper for colleges to pressure contender to sit for post-UTME as an essential condition for affirmation.
Translating the pastor's affirmations later, the National Universities Commission (NUC) said colleges were still at freedom to "screen" understudies sent to them for confirmation by JAMB. NUC's Public Relations Officer Ibrahim Yakassai said "screening" in this connection incorporates check of competitors' UTME slip, SSCE results and other sundry affirmation reports. We expect that a few establishments could adventure NUC's translation of the choice by raising screening into a paper and pencil test. We consequently encourage the Ministry of Education to issue an obvious proclamation to colleges on the scrapping of post-UTME. The same explanation ought to expound on what is implied by "screening" that colleges may wish to lead.
Other than the scrapping of post-UTME, the priest additionally taught JAMB to quit charging N1,000 per contender for the scratch cards utilized as a part of getting to UTME results on the web. At the end of the meeting, a cut-off characteristic of 180 was affirmed for the 2016/2017 induction into all organizations. These measures are exceptionally wonderful news to UTME applicants who, before the initiation of the partners meeting, had accumulated at the passageway of NUC home office, venue of the meeting, conveying notices in dissent against post-UTME.
Scrapping of post-UTME was once anticipated by JAMB's Registrar/Chief Executive Officer Prof. Dibu Ojerinde when, in 2015, he guaranteed that the Computer Based Test (CBT) method of UTME was pointed, among others, at destroying deceiving and different types of unfortunate behavior connected with open examinations. He anticipated that CBT would bit by bit reestablish college powers' trust in UTME. This has now happened.
It would be reviewed that the presentation of post-UTME in 2004 was incited when numerous hopefuls who made great results in UTME couldn't guard such. The respectability of UTME as led by JAMB went under extreme reactions from different partners, especially the colleges. Notwithstanding, post-UTME additional time likewise came to experience the ill effects of the same difficulties that required its presentation. Post-UTME additionally turned out to be exceedingly exploitative the same number of colleges transformed the activity into a cash spinner. Because of a need for Internally Generated Revenue numerous colleges welcomed substantial quantities of applicants, more than their individual affirmation limits, to sit for post-UTME. A college with an ability to concede 3,000 hopefuls, for case, welcomed between up to 40,000 possibility to compose post-UTME.
Also, post-UTME turned into a duplication of exertion as an applicant composed two separate selection tests (UTME and post-UTME) for one confirmation exercise. Surprisingly more dreadful was the mental weight that hopefuls were subjected to when welcomed to compose post-UTME. Some applicants needed to fly out long separations to sit for the examination in the wake of having gotten the required cut-off point in UTME, presenting them to all the dangers connected with going on Nigerian streets.
Since post-UTME is gone, we guidance JAMB to utilize innovation to enhance its behavior of UTME so that the difficulties, particularly those accomplished amid the 2016 UTME would be turned away in ensuing examinations. There is still a great deal of opportunity to get better in CBT method of UTME.
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