How To Pass Post UMTE (Aptitude Test)
This are the list of Nigerian Universities that have announced their Post UTME 2016/2017 application forms.
Note: We will keep updating this page regularly with all the Post UTME dates, cut off marks, procedures for application/registration, requirements for institutions.
Aptitude tests are structured systematic ways of evaluating how people perform on tasks or react to different situations. They have standardised methods of administration and scoring with the results quantified and compared with how others have done at the same tests. They are increasingly administered on a computer.
The major reason accounting for the failure of candidates in the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), conducted by the
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is the inability of many
schools to make e-learning a priority, thus making it extremely
difficult for candidates to manipulate computer in the exam hall. This
revelation came from the Chief Learning Officer of Mandate Private
Schools, Akesan, Igando, Lagos, Rev. Sunday Attah.
This, according to him, arose from the failure of many schools to
anticipate the introduction of computer- based exam in the country. His
words: “The reason our students pass UTME excellently well every year
is because we were able, far back as 2008, to predict the introduction
of computer-based examination in Nigeria and we immediately made
e-learning from primary school to SS3 a top priority.
At a forum in South Africa in 2008 which I attended and was
organized by the Nigeria based Accelerated Learning Group, we did a 5-
year projection on educational development where we predicted the
adoption of computer-based examination in Nigeria given our assessment
of the situation in other parts of the world. There and then I decided
to introduce computer–based examination in my school which I implemented
on returning to Nigeria from South Africa .Thus, students of Mandate
Private Schools were already doing computer-based examination even
before JAMB introduced it.
The first step we took was to transform our SS1-SS3 classes to
e- learning classrooms. Each of the students has laptop and teachers’
notes are transferred to students’ laptops through wireless devices. We
have given ourselves a time frame to introduce the intensive ICT
education to our primary section, which will make pupils/students from
Primary 1 to SS3 computer literate and internet friendly.
These pupils and students are taught by competent computer
teachers in the use of word processing, multimedia, internet, e-mail,
desktop publishing, networking and computer aided designs. Their
familiarity with computer gives them emotional and psychological
stability in the JAMB-conducted computer-examination. This accounts for
the high figure of about 95% of our students who gain admissions to
various universities every year.
I must quickly add that the reason for the failure of many
students across the country in the examination is their lack of exposure
to computer from their secondary schools. Expectedly, such students
will lose self-confidence in the examination hall. Any student who is
jittery in the examination hall as a result of his or her inability to
operate computer will fail woefully.’’ This claim of overwhelming
success in the UTME, says the school proprietor, is underscored by the
large number of the school’s former students who have graduated as well
as those who are presently studying in different universities around the
world.
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