I came across this interesting piece on one of the
popular forums and think it will be of interest to
Solutionclassians. 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.
