The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board ( JAMB ), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has said that the 2019 elections could no longer have an effect on the board’s 2019/2020 examination.
He made this observation at the same time as fielding questions from journalists shortly after handing over the 2018 Annual Sobo Sowemimo Lecture of the Abeokuta Club in Abeokuta.
Oloyede said that since the Independent National Electoral Commission ( INEC ), had given the dates of the elections, then the board would most effective need to regulate as a consequence.
“I don’t assume there could be any need for a shift inside the exam date because of the 2019 preferred elections. I agree with INEC has done nicely by way of giving us a notice 6 months ago.
“They have given us the date of the elections. So we haven’t any excuse now not to have adjusted. We have adjusted correctly,” he stated.
Oloyede decried the charge at which candidates, who have not qualified in writing the examination registered for it, thereby, inflicting what he described as “unnecessary luggage” on the board.
He stated that the exam frame would adopt stiffer measures to test incidences of unqualified candidates from applying and writing the exam for the 2019/2020 admission exercising.
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Oloyede noted that JAMB might no longer allow anyone to take undue advantage over others, saying the board could now not repeat the mistake it recorded within the last exam as regards this improvement.
The JAMB registrar stated the body would start the 2019/2020 examination procedure by October, promising that the procedure for the following exam would be higher than the last one.
“We are on with the 2018/2019 admission exercise. This, we started just about a month ago. We accept as true with that by using the stop of October, we would then start the 2019/2020 admission.
“I can guarantee you that we are best-tuning and learning from our mistakes last year. We are perfecting the techniques and strategies, making sure that nobody is allowed to have undue benefit over the others.
Oloyede, who did now not divulge the precise variety of the candidates predicted for the 2019 exercise, stated measures were installed vicinity to make certain that all candidates are minimally certified.
“It is tough to say the exact wide variety of candidates we are waiting for this time. We count on to crash the quantity due to the fact many of those who are taking the forms are not even prepared or certified for the exam.
“Some are SS1 students, who are just attempting; contributing N5, 000 unduly to our handbag. We are installing vicinity a few checks to make folks that need to apply to be minimally certified.
“That’s wherein we’re moving to, rather than creating unrealistic figures. We cannot say in reality this is the discern however we are seeking to make sure that we don’t have pointless bags.
“We are not interested by the money. We are interested in having good enough education for folks that are genuine students,” he added.