The Registrar, National Examinations Council (NECO), Ibrahim Wushishi, says the complexity of the body’s examinations may not allow for immediate migration from paper to Computer Based Test (CBT).
Mr Wushishi, a professor, was speaking during an interactive session with journalists on key achievements of the council, on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said that by virtue of being the body conducting the largest number of examinations, migrating to CBT would take gradual steps.
“For JAMB, they are not examining candidates in so many subject areas, so they find it very easy to embrace CBT in their examinations and do multiple choice in their rest.
“As far as NECO is concerned, if you look at the nature of our exams particularly in SSCE internal, for admissions into tertiary institutions, every year we examine close to 1.5 million students, which is a large number.
“For this 1.5 million candidates, we examine them in 76 different subjects and more than 150 different papers,” Mr Wushishi said.
The Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) blazed a trail with the introduction of CBT for the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matricula Examination in 2013.
