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JAMB-EXAMINATION-2013
QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS,QUESTIONS!
1.Is it true that the actual number of students without results or who failed for various reasons is higher than 60% of the total number of students who took the exam? If not can the Prof supply a thoroughly verified and detailed classification of the correct figures?
2.Would the figures to be provided tally with the those supplied by the Board recently the day it released the 2013 results? If they do,has the Board taken a closer look at why there have been many demonstrations across the country because of these results? Do these demonstrations give credence to the stats announced or tend to say that they are false?. If the stats are going to be different can the board explain why with reasons? Can the Board confirm or deny possible upgrading or rescheduling of another exam if serious errors had impacted on those released?
3.Is it true that the Board embarked on certain 2013 measures to punish exam cheats and frustrate their backers? While praising the Board for this,can the board please itemize the measures and explain each of them in simple and plain English? In doing so the Board should get ready to explain to the relevantcommittee in camera how these measures caught cheaters.But above all the Board should also be willing to prove that these measures did not ensnare innocent candidates.As is often said which we all know “it is better for the guilty to go free than to convict the innocent.
4.In view of past experiences and rumor mills which were on before the 2013 exam date we expect Jamb would have taken certain additonal preventive steps for reducing cheating asthe exams rather than punitative ones only after the exams. If so what steps were these and can the Board produce/provide the evidence? By these we mean evidence different to the so-called “biometric verification”.Can the Board also confirm or deny the incredulous claim by candidateds that 25 marks were deducted from each subject score per student as punishment for exam malpractices?
5.Over 1.6 million candidates,with many examination centres spread over the country took part in the exams.Above all,there were reported breaches confirmed by national newspapers and observers to be massive virtually in all states.So why and how did the Board resolve all outstanding issues to release results within 7 days? Is 7 days sancrosanct or dictated by any law? If it took only 7 days to get the results is it too much to spend another 7 days to ensure its integrity to ensure justice and fair play? Are two or even three weeks too long for ensuring that the results have transparency ?Perhaps the Board will like to provide some cogent reasons for what some of the complaints received have termed as “unreasonable haste at releasing results which lack transparency and integrity”.
6.Is the hasty release of these results morally and legally defensible when its CBT option has not been conducted.Or is the CBT option no longer part of Jamb exams? If so is it really beng honest to tell the public that only 10 students scored over 300? And What if the best sharpshooters are those taking the CBT option? Does it measn that the board was just being ordinarily careless or deliberately so?
7.It has also been reported that most exam fraudsters have traceable websites,telephone numbers and bank account numbers which the Board acknowledged to be aware of at one of its press conferences or news releases.We wonder why a formal report was not made to the police to get search and arrest warrants of these people 24 hrs to the exam to keep them at special locations in Lagos and Abuja while the exams lasted? There after they should then be given bail within periods that would not have exceeded their human rghts detention limits ? Or why not get the telecom companies to monitor what they were trasmitting to students just before the exams and render their GSM lines inc0mmunicado for just 24 hours? Is the Board aware that some students could have prepared for the exams truthfully and yet got misled due to the ease with which so-called answers were circulating in the exam hall?
8.In relation to the last point can the Board also swear to an affidavit that its computers security are 100% and that it has investigated its internal human links to those computers and exam papers and has confirmed that fraudsters do not have moles through which some exam papers probably leaked? Can the board point to any seccess ful prosecution of those arrested in ths past for cheating?Do invigilatore have respectable code of ethics?.In fact how are they chosen each year? What about men and women of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps.Is it true that many of them contributed to exam malprectce?What has the Board found out and if there are many failings as reported through national newspapers what is the Board going to do about reviews with NSCDC bosses and future exams?
9.Since JAMB exam is like war in the country and there will aways be temptations for cutting corners especially because of limited spaces in higher institutions why is the Board not encouraging owners of websites like http://lagosbooksclub.wordpress.com and http://lagosbooksclub.com who organize annual JAMB Technique Seminars educating students on how pointless and stupid it is to cheat in a mainly multi-guess exam like JAMB?
10.Can the CBT become an alternative exam to the other two options and be taken at least 3 to 6 times in one year like SAT? Will this not reduce or remove annual associated tension in students and their parents once they know they are not tied to the apron strings of a grossly faulted exam? Will this not also remove the need for post-utme exams and allow universities set almost uniform admission guidelines based mostly on merit and state of origin?
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