UTME: JAMB tells parents to stay away from exam centers, warns candidates against cheating
- Ahead of the 2018 UTME’s, the JAMB has warned candidates’ parents to stay away from examination centers to prevent them engaging in exam malpractice
- The JAMB registrar stressed that such practice was not helpful as the parents won’t follow their children to the lecture rooms
- He also urged the candidates to avoid any form of malpractice or shortcut to passing the examination as he stated that they would bear their cross if caught
Parents of candidates sitting for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have been told to stay away from computer-based centers by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Punch reports.
The warning was given by Prof Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB registrar, while monitoring the Mock UTME at the Kogo and Veritas University CBT centres on Monday, February 26.
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Legit.ng gathers that Oloyede noted that some parents had a habit of hanging around exam centers in order to engage in examination malpractice.
He stated: “We urge parents to keep away from CBT centres. We are preparing people for university education, but the parents come around too often. They want their children or their wards to pass at all costs. This practice is not helpful because they will not follow these candidates to the lecture rooms.
“Lecturers and others will start taking undue advantage of such parents because they are not mature. They are not prepared for the task. I think parents should steer clear of all CBT centres and allow the children to grow."
The registrar stressed that the board would monitor all the computers to be used, and urged the UTME candidates to desist from cheating. He also stated that the ban remained on all electronic devices, such as phones, headsets, flash drives and other items, such as wristwatches and calculators.
In his words: “We urge the candidates to avoid any form of malpractice or shortcut to passing the examination. You are aware that we have banned some items from going into the examination halls; we have banned special glasses, wristwatches and many other things that we are aware our candidates use for illicit activities.
“As the candidates are getting cleverer, the board is getting wiser. We have done everything possible to avoid the issue of logging out. When a student sees that the questions are difficult, he plays some pranks, remove some wires, pulls out the cable. Then there is a problem.
“But we are going to monitor every system and if we discover that a candidate deliberately shut down a system, he will carry his cross.”
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Meanwhile, Legit.ng previously reported that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said about 1.6 million registration forms for the 2018 UTME's had so far been sold, two days to the end of the exercise.
The board’s head, media and information, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview in Lagos. According to Benjamin, this year’s registration for the examination has proved to be one of the best in recent times.
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Source: Legit.ng
