WAEC Plans To Launch CBT For WASSCE

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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) hinted of plans to introduce the Computer Based Test (CBT) mode in examinations administration.

Mr. Patrick Areghan, WAEC’s Head of National Office (HNO), revealed this a mefia close-up on Saturday, saying that introduction of the CBT mode of administering some of the council’s examinations had been part of his vision for the body.

Said he: ”We have already started something in terms of CBT examination. We have gone far with our planning and all of that, even in the sub-region, the registrar to the council is also doing something”.

He said it was not as easy as some people think.

Stated he: “This is because we ask ourselves, how do we conduct CBT for practicals and essay papers?

“We can only readily do that in the case of objective questions. But so many people will not see it from that angle. They argue that some others are doing it, why can’t WAEC do the same?

“Now, no one even talks about energy; how many schools are exposed to computer literacy? How many have computer facilities, and how many have electricity to run these things?

“Even where you have all these things on ground, how do you handle the issue of theory and practical papers? So, these are the issues, but that is what I want the council to do in the very near future”.

He further stated that the council should be able to conduct CBT examinations, even if it meant starting with the objective questions.

Areghan added that WAEC might have a segregated market, stating that those who could not afford the CBT would go for the pencil and paper mode.

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