The West African Assessment Council (WAEC) states its elderly secondary certificate test (SSCE) will soon be converted to a computer-based exam waec expo.
Speaking at a press conference on Tuesday, Olu Adenipekun, the council’s head of Nigeria nationwide office, claimed the CBT test would certainly start with its objective questions.
” In about 2 weeks, we should be wrapping up mounting all the required software application and also back-ups in our brand-new CBT centre with a 600-seat capability.
” Actually, we want other stakeholders– corporate individuals and also organisations– to sign up with hands with us in developing CBT centres nationwide, in institutions and other places, but I want to claim WAEC is at the leading edge for this project.”
Adenipekun claimed the intro of CBT would certainly be a steady procedure to enable trainees to obtain accustomed to using computers for examinations.
” Nonetheless, where any kind of schools feel they have been training their pupils on just how to apply the computers extremely well and consequently want us ahead and provide such a examination utilizing the computers, why not? We will do it,” he discussed.
” That is why I state, for us to be able to introduce the CBT test for our examinations, it will certainly take synergies of all of us– colleges, WAEC as well as various other keys stakeholders.”
Giving statistics of the January/February First Series WASSCE for exclusive prospects released, he claimed 12,202 prospects signed up for the evaluation as versus the 11,721 prospects that signed up in 2018.
Of this number, Adenipekun stated only 3,102 prospects had credit scores and over in a minimum of five topics consisting of English Language and also Maths.
” There are 376 results, representing 3.16 percent of the complete candidature for the examination, being held back about numerous reported situations of examination malpractice,” stated the exam authorities,” he stated.
” The instances are being investigated and reports of the examinations will certainly be presented to the proper board of the council in due course for factor to consider. The committee’s decisions will be connected to the influenced prospects.”