JAMB 2017: Why we reduced exam duration to 2 hours – Registrar
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.
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