The ongoing 2012.2013 First Semester Examination has added a positive twist as the Management had engaged the personnel of the University’s Information and Communication Technology Resource Centre (ICTREC) in the application of Computer Based Test (CBT) for students.

The innovation is not only a vast improvement on the conduct of examinations in the University but better still, a drastic and radical departure from the past where the institution hired  contractors to conduct the examination.

The Acting Head, ICTREC, Dr. Olutayo  Ajayi revealed this in an exclusive chat with FUNAAB Bulletin.

He described the innovation as unique and a landmark achievement. His words, “in the past five years, we have been using external company to conduct Computer Based Test and this has been causing us fortune. We have dropped that idea, the Professor Oyewole led Management is now engaging members of staff to conduct the examination.

This is a landmark achievement for the University and its very unique.  The uniqueness lies in the fact that we have taken the bull by the horn by doing it ourselves. We are now one of the very few Universities that are conducting CBT without contracting it to external companies”, he added.

Expatiating on the Computer Based Test (CBT) and its benefits, Dr. Ajayi stated that “CBT is when students are doing examinations on the computer as against paper work.  CBT is easier and faster than the conventional method of doing