The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that candidates for its direct entry examination would now be subjected to cognitive and verbal reasoning tests.
The Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede made the disclosure during a virtual meeting with commissioners of education in the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
He explained that the test would assess candidates’ academic potential or career suitability, as well as their mental or physical capacity.
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He said: “It is an intelligent test that will measure the candidate’s current cognitive skills and will not be the usual subjects such as Mathematics, Chemistry, Government or Physics.”
The test, in the registrar words, would include verbal, abstract, mechanical and numerical reasoning, data checking and work sampling, He said all DE candidates must provide at the point of registration, the matriculation number of the previous school attended; subject of qualification; institution attended; year of graduation as well as admission letter, where necessary.
