JAMB'S INTRODUCTION OF 8 KEYS The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced its resolve to abolish Computer Based Test, CBT, method for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, due to low computer literacy level of candidates. The board said it has in collaboration with a private institute resolved to set up dedicated UTME centres for visually impaired candidates in Abuja, Lagos and Kano in 2018. Registrar of the board, Professor Is-haq Olanrewaju Oloyede, disclosed this in Kaduna on Wednesday, saying the board would not revert to the old paper and pencil mode, but an eight-keys device. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Strategic Planning Retreat on Monitoring and Supervision of 2017 UTME in Kaduna, Professor Oloyede said the eight-keys device would eradicate the challenge of computer illiteracy and phobia for mouse by some candidates. According to him, “From the general feedback on the adoption of the Computer Based Test mode, we have n...
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