Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, on Wednesday, explained why the exams umpire
decided to slash one hour off the regular three hours duration
candidates sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination
(UTME).
He explained that the demographic population targeted for UTME had
been proven to have a short-attention span and that as such keeping them
for more than two hours would cause them to lose their presence of
mind.
According to him, the reduction of hours was also in line with
international best standards and practices where no candidate was kept
in an examination such as UTME for more than two hours.
Oloyede stated this in Kaduna during the opening ceremony of a
strategic planning retreat on the monitoring, supervision and evaluation
of 2017 UTME with the theme: “Inclusiveness and sensitisation of key
external actors”.
He said: “We are going to reduce the duration of the examination for
this year’s UTME. You cannot keep children of this age for three hours.
For their age, the maximum time you can keep them is two hours.
“So, we are considering the reduction in the time they spend because
once it is more than two hours you can’t expect that they will retain
their presence of mind.”
He further disclosed that a total of 240,000 candidates had so far
registered for the examination which had been scheduled for May 20,
barely one week after the commencement of the sale of forms which is
expected to end on April 22.
Oloyede added that out of 13 commercial banks and the Nigeria Postal
Service that had signified interest in the sales of the admission forms,
only nine had paid for the number of application documents they
required in the first instance.
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