more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination
malpractices in the on-going UTME in Anambra have
been handed over to the appropriate authority.
Mrs Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board
in Anambra disclosed this to the News Agency of
Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Saturday.
NAN reports that the all computer-based testing (CBT)
mode 2017 UTME, which started on May 13 in 642
centres nationwide, ended on May 20.
Nwachukwu said that the examination, which took
place in 28 centres in the state, was successful.
"There was no disruption of the exercise in any of the
examination centres,'' she said.
The coordinator said that the candidates adhered
strictly to the requirements of the examination,
adding that JAMB provided all the materials required
for the examination.
NAN correspondent, who monitored the last batch of
the examination, reports that some parents
complained of system failure in some CBT centres in
the state.
Mrs Eucharia Okonkwo, a parent, said her daughter,
who wrote the examination at the St Mary's High
School Ifite-Dunu centre, could not complete the
examination due to the faulty computer and network
failure at the centre.
According to her daughter, many candidates could
not complete the questions in record time because of
the faulty system.
Okonkwo advised JAMB to plan well for examination
in subsequent years to avoid the technical hitches
that could give the candidates psychological trauma.
Dr. Mose Mojekeh, Head, Department of Marketing at
the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, told
NAN on a telephone, that such system failure in
UTME was not acceptable.
According to him, the hiccups could potentially deny
young people from Anambra State, university
admission.
Mojekeh advised JAMB to urgently collate the number
of candidates affected and set another examination
for them.
He also decried the practice whereby JAMB sends
officials from one state to supervise examinations in
another state.
"Experience has shown that such officials do not care
much about the candidates when problems arise, as
they leave them to their fate,'' the lecturer said.
He called on the management of schools, whose
candidates experienced the computer failure, to take
their complaints to the State Ministry of Education to
present their cases.
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