The Federal Government has revealed that privately-owned Computer-Based Test centres and others belonging to public institutions would be fully deployed in the conduct of the school-based Senior School Certificate Examination by next year.
Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, made this known after monitoring a pilot CBT SSCE conducted by the National Examinations Council at Sascon International School, Maitama, on Tuesday in Abuja.
Alausa, who hailed NECO for the seamless conduct of the pilot phase of the CBT SSCE, said that future school-based SSCEs would be moved to designated CBT centres, rather than being held within schools.
He said, “WAEC and NECO exams are school-based exams being conducted at their schools. No, we will move away from that.
“It is going to be like (the way) JAMB exams are being conducted at CBT centres. We have thousands of CBT centres across the nation.
“Those are the centres that we are going to use. It’s not the case that students do not have the facilities. Schools do not have the facilities.
Alausa further commended NECO for its preparedness to fully transition to CBT, noting that the pilot was a demonstration of capacity and commitment to reform.
He also disclosed a phased rollout of the CBT format across all school exams, starting with objective questions this year.
Fielding questions from newsmen after monitoring the ongoing NECO exam alongside members of the Senate Committee on Education (Basic and Secondary) at Government Secondary School, Maitama, Registrar of NECO, Prof. Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, expressed the readiness of the exam body for CBT.
He said, “NECO is ready as a professional body to conduct examinations using any medium.
“We may have challenges of infrastructure, that is obvious, but then that will not bog us down from do it.
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