QUESTIONS THE HOUSE OF REPS MAY WANT TO ASK PROF DIBU OJERINDE ON 2013 JAMB EXAMS AND RESULTS

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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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2013 JAMB RESULTS...SOME CHEATING CANDIDATES WORE PREMIER LEAGUE T-SHIRTS WITH PREPARED ANSWERS

JAMB: Candidates paid N5,000 – N20,000 to cheat

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB said yesterday that only 10 candidates scored 300 marks and above in the last Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the country even as some candidates printed customised shirts and T-shirts where anticipated answers were prepared to cheat during the examination.

JAMB Registrar, Professor, ‘Dibu Ojerinde who made this known in Abuja while addressing newsmen said that 40 centres were involved in cheating during the examination, where some candidates paid between N5,000 and N20,000 to be allowed to cheat.

He however, said that JAMB was investigating the centres where malpractices took place, pointing out that those 40 centres might be barred from future UTME if found guilty. He also noted that he did not wish to pre-empt the sanctions to be applied until investigations were concluded.

According to Ojerinde, apart from the 10 candidates who scored above 300 marks, 628 others scored between 270 – 299; 33,115 scored 250 – 269: 704,622 scored 200 and above while 801,804 scored below 200.

He also said that the board recorded 40,692 invalid results due to multiple shading or no shading at all by candidates while the examination was successfully conducted in 3,168 centres.

Ojerinde further said that 1,629,102 candidates applied to sit for the Paper Pencil Test, PPT, while 15,508 candidates applied for the Dual Based Test, DBT bringing the total of candidates to 1,644,110. Out of this figure, 47,974 were absent.

A breakdown of the number of  the candidates that sat for the UTME showed that 1,670,833 applied to go to the universities while 28,977 and 28,445 chose Polytechnics and Colleges of Education respectively even as only 25 chose the newly established Innovative Enterprises Institutes.Innovative Enterprises Institutes according to him, are institutions where skills acquisition are their mandates.

Speaking further, he noted that the result of 78,309 candidates from various centres were at present, undergoing screening to ascertain their culpability in malpractices, while 12,110 candidates’ results were being withheld for possible disciplinary action.

On the candidates who printed special T-shirts and shirts with prepared answers, he regretted that  candidates for the UTME had always devised new methods of cheating on yearly basis. The Registrar stressed that the examination cheats had graduated from using ‘’magic slippers’’ to customised T-shirts and shirts in which anticipated answers were imprinted in the sleeves as well as inside the T-shirts.

“Details of the results in order of merit according to courses and institutions of choice of candidates will be dispatched to universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, colleges of education and innovative enterprises institutes at the appropriate time for the purposes of 2013/2014 admissions.

“It is the policy of the board to ensure that equal opportunity is given to all candidates seeking placement in the nation’s tertiary institutions regardless of their physical status. We will continue to appeal to stakeholders to show more interest in the acquisition of higher education by this category of citizens

“The board hereby reminds everybody that it has implemented the Federal Government’s policy which stipulates that all candidates seeking admissions into the universities, polytechnics, monotechnics, colleges of education and Innovative Enterprises Institutes, Police Academy and the Nigerian Defence Academy, NDA, must sit for the UTME being conducted by the JAMB.

“The board will continue to appeal to the various state governments concerned to provide their indigenes with enough capacity building programmes that would allow them apply directly to the board so as to compete favourably with their counterparts in other states of the federation. Let me once again state that candidates are allowed to change their choices of institutions and courses only once,’’ he added, noting that the change of institutions must be effected before May 17, 2013, or  two weeks from yesterday

Ojerinde stressed that the Computer Based Test, CBT would hold from Saturday, May 18, 2013, to June 1, 2013 and requested candidates to ensure that they reprint their e-registration slips afresh so as to be sure of their centres.

By Favour Nnabugwu/VANGUARD