JAMB conducts test for 760 CAC officials

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has conducted promotion test for 760 officials of the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) nationwide.

JAMB Registrar, Professor Is-haq Oloyede said the Computer Based Test (CBT) which took place in Bwari, Abuja, was meant to guarantee fairness and equity in conduct of public exams.

He said the board had created a new platform for ‘third party test’ which carried stipulated number of questions and the results were released in one hour after the test. He said the test was conducted using JAMB facility at low cost.

“For any agency that wants to conduct public exam fairly, JAMB is the right place to go. We conduct exam for 1.7 million candidates at simultaneously for two weeks in a year and the remaining weeks, the facilities will be lying idle.”

He said many public bodies have either carried out employment or promotion tests with the board of recent, which indicated that “Nigerians have started doing things properly.”

Director of Test Administration, Dr. Yusuf Lawal said candidates who were not familiar CBT were educated on how to use the computer prior to the test.

Chairman of Amalgamation Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service, Technical and Recreation Service Employees (AUPTRE), Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC), Ibrahim Kirfi said the union requested JAMB to conduct the promotion test, because previous tests were not in line with international best practices. “This is the most transparent and credible means of assessing the performance of candidates.”