Sunday, 14 May 2017

JAMB plots against cheating candidates

Around one million seven hundred and thirty six thousand, five hundred and seventy one competitors who enrolled for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, including 321 visually impaired applicants will sit for the examination, which is an essential for admission to both the colleges and polytechnics.
For quite a long time, there were accounted for instances of examination misrepresentation executed by the hopefuls, now and again with the helper of their folks, supports and in a joint effort with some staff of JAMB. The current year's examination seems to have a few advancements to check exam acts of neglect.

The initial step taken by the administration of JAMB driven by its Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede was the presentation of Closed Circuit Television Cameras and the 624 focuses which will screen developments of competitors and administrators amid the activity.

Prof. Oloyede while preparation columnists as of late at JAMB central command in Bwari, an edge of Abuja, stated, "We have begun to introduce CCTV cameras at our test focuses so that from the Situation Room, we can screen what is happening the nation over."

Aside from the CCTV camera, JAMB has likewise changed the installment and enlistment stages through which every competitor acquires a PIN and not the standard scratch cards from the market and direct exchange with the board.

Another range where hopefuls cheat amid examination is through double enlistment however the administration of JAMB has said that such won't happen in today's activity.

As indicated by Prof. Oloyede, "to make preparations for double and numerous enlistments that savvy competitors do, we have biometrically caught every one of the fingers of the applicants. On the off chance that you need to mimic anybody, you should bring the individual's finger. "We have started to make profiles for our candidates so that each of them would have a customized account where data would be made accessible. The procedure will make coming physically to JAMB office unnecessary as all amendments can be affected on applicants profiles and accommodation of archives made on the web."

Aside that, JAMB has presented as supplement, basic Computer Keyboard to make things less demanding for the individuals who are not comfortable with the utilization of a mouse or regular console.

On the territory of security, JAMB experts guaranteed of water tight security as the Registrar indicated of the joint effort with security organizations including the military to make the procedure smooth, secure and acceptable.

Another advancement by JAMB administration to check frequencies of examination negligence is the utilization of Biometric Verification Machine, BVM, to confirm them as the applicants. The JAMB Registrar likewise expressed that the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, NSCDC, the Police, the Department of State Services, DSS, the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related an Offenses Commission, ICPC, and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, have been locked in to screen examination focuses and keep up close reconnaissance.

Each test focus will have a chief, a specialized officer, a check officer, three delegate and in addition security operators and each state will be superintended over by a leader of a tertiary foundation, a Vice-Chancellor, Rector or Provost that organizes the bosses under his or her locale. As indicated by him, "As we are set for the 2017 exercise, we have developed every one of the boondocks of the 2017 examinations. You may review that, last year, the examination was directed in 524 focuses. The 2017 UTME would be directed in 624 focuses the country over. "The difficulties so far particularly with the prior bungled Mock Examinations have consoled JAMB that whatever happens, occurs for the great." He additionally expressed that JAMB had expanded the limit of the test focuses to 250 (with just a couple in Categories B and C having the seating limit of more than 200 and 100 separately), adding that the point is to make powerful documentation and observing less demanding. "Plus, we have additionally broadened our distributing banks from four (4) to ten (10) banks and furthermore brought on board Interswitch, Remita and NIPOST.
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