” . Leaked question papers, and awarding marks to candidates were also accusations against the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, that is responsible for admission into tertiary institutions. At a point, the whole integrity of the JAMB Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, was called to question as candidates that were supposed to have scored high marks in JAMB, could not cope with undergraduate studies.
While this will be a major step towards checking leakages, it will not generally curb cheating in the examinations. On this, Prof. Oloyede said JAMB’s strategy is to shop for all cheating devices available, study them and devise ways of neutralising them. JAMB, he said, has been so successful in this, that it has ways of detecting the various devices even if the candidate tries to conceal them.
Additionally, JAMB has decided to equate registration infractions with examination infractions. So applicants guilty of any such infraction, will be delisted. However, it is not candidates alone that commit infractions. For instance, it has been discovered that some tertiary institutions who run pre-degree programmes, are deliberately creating room for such products to be admitted for their full degree programmes.
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