Posted on: 02:26 Mon, 25 Jan 2016



The National Examinations Council (NECO) on
Monday said that it was concluding plans to
migrate from the Paper-Pencil-Test mode to the
Computer Based Test (CBT) mode for its
objective examinations.

The registrar of the council, Prof. Abdulrashid
Garba, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
in Lagos.

NAN reports that the management of the
council had, in 2015, announced plans to adopt
the CBT mode for its objective questions.

According to him, migrating into the CBT will
make the examination less cumbersome but be
cost effective.

“We have almost finalised the procedure on the
CBT mode for our objective examinations.

“As soon as we have a governing board in place,
the plan will be tabled before it for discussion
and approval. How soon this is achieved,
depends on the Federal Government.

“We are, equally, working toward a complete
migration to the CBT for all our examinations.

“It is not easy to conduct theoretical, practical
and oral components of our examinations.

“We are, however, currently talking with some
private firms on the possibility of using CBT
mode for those other examinations,’’ Garba said.