I came across this interesting piece on one of the popular forums and
think it will be of interest to Myschoolers. Please read and share your
opinion;
"It’s really sad that after 38 years of setting up the Joint Admission
Matriculation Board (JAMB), she’s still on the quest to getting it
right. It hurts when I see bright minds deprived of the opportunity to
further their education largely due to the incompetence of the
examination body. A question always pop into my mind: “Can’t we just
scrap this system?”
Here is my view of what I feel should be the way forward
JAMB really needs to look beyond conducting examination. She should
serve more as a portal that connects the students with the tertiary
institutions. What do I mean by this, students should only register
through JAMB having meet up with the requirements laid down by the body
and their credentials should be forwarded to the institutions for the
admission process
The system should be done in such a way that a candidate can only choose
a max. of 5 institutions. The payment method should also be a factor of
the number of schools chose. The minimum could be 2 institution costing
N4,000 flat. An addition of extra school determines how much you
eventually pay. E.g. For every extra school pick, you pay an addition of
1,000 to the 4,000 flat.
Access the website, fill up the number of institutions interested, print
out the transcript, go to the nearest bank to pay, collect your pin and
finally logon to begin your application. This will reduce the cost of
printing scratch card which does not even sale for the exact amount in
some part of the country. Some agents go the length of adding extra N300
before purchasing the card from them.
Once the application is closed for the year, JAMB should then sit down
and process the various entries. A centralized timetable will then be
designed for the conduct of the exam. Candidate who chose UI and other
schools for example might take the other school’s (UniZik, FUTMINNA,
IMSU and AAUA) exam first before taking that of UI’s depending on the
calendar drafted. If a candidate who chose UNIBEN logon for the exam, he
would be redirected to UNIBEN’s question which was set by the school
herself.
This means JAMB technically have no question but serve as a middleman
between the school and the candidate. This is where University standard
come in to play. OAU’s questions might be more challenging compared to
University of Uyo and students who wishes to attend OAU have to prepare
very well.
After the examination, either the school/JAMB can mark (objectives)
depending on the agreement reached and the result is then forwarded to
the institutions. The result will then determine the cut-off mark to be
used by the institution.
If for example, a candidate made it in to 3 of the 5 schools selected,
he has the period of a month to accept just one of it creating vacuum
for another potential candidate at the school he rejected.
This will balance the population across the institutions in Nigeria."
I think this is really cool. What do you think about his idea?
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