Blind candidates of the UTME will be sitting for their exam using interactive, mode according to this year's provisions.
JAMB candidates
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB),
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, says prospective blind candidates for UTME will
write this year’s examination by interactive mode.
Oloyede said this while addressing some blind candidates from the
Bethesda Home for the Blind on the sideline of the board’s stakeholders’
meeting with CBT centre owners on Monday in Lagos.
The registrar said that because of the insufficient number of the
Braille Note Apex machine normally used by blind, the board has resolved
to conduct the examination for them through interaction.
"This year, we are going to interact with you. We will not be using the Braille Note Apex.
”Once you fill the forms, we are going to group all of you
nationwide into three zones, Lagos, Kano and Abuja and during the
examination, experts will interact with you on the various subject.
“As a result of this development you will not be taking Mathematics in this year’s examination.
“The experts will have discussions with you, assess you on the
various subjects (except Mathematics) and score you over 400 and then
give us your scores,’’ he explained to the already excited blind
candidates.
“We know it is going to cost the board a lot because we are
bringing experts from diverse subject areas to interact with them for
this 2017 examination only, but at the same time, very equitable as well
as inclusive,’’ he said.
According to the registrar, it is necessary for the blind
candidates to take the examination through this mode because they had
not been adequately trained on how to handle the Braille machines for
the examination.
He added that it would be unfair for the impaired candidates to be
subjected to use the machines even when they had not been adequately
trained on how to use them.
“As you know, they do not have the capacity to use these
machines and exposing them to it just 24 to 48 hours before the
examination does not reflect equity.
“Henceforth we will place emphasis on training all prospective
blind candidates nationwide for about two weeks on the use of the
Braille Note Apex machine before the commencement of our examinations.
“Before next year’s examination, all prospective blind
candidates for UTME would have gone through residential training on the
ticket of JAMB.
”We are not asking them to pay or do anything. They will pay
the normal fees for the examination and then train them, whether they
want to sit for UTME or not, as long as they are in their final year.
“This will make it easy for them to use the machines,’’ he said.
He called on state governments to assist the blind students in
their respective states by procuring the Braille Note Apex in order to
serve as an added advantage to their training Oloyede added that there
would be a centre in each of the states for the training and hence the
need to encourage the state governments to acquire the machines.
He added that the machines costs not less than N1.5 million each;
adding that every government that believed in the development of the
youth and the nation at large should be able to afford as many as
possible.
”We have found out too that some of the blind candidates do not
perform optimally in our examination because they are not properly
exposed to the machines.
“That is the main reason why we want to suspend the use of the
machine for this year’s examination and opt for the interactive mode.
“As soon as we get more of the machines, we will continue with the Braille note Apex CBT.”
He said the Digital Bridge Institute has given the board assurance
that from next year, will acquire sufficient machines for the training
of these candidates before and during the examination.
He said currently only 20 of the machines were at the disposal of
the board and would not be enough to cater for the over 200 blind
candidates nationwide that would be taking the examination tin May.
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