BrainFriend Software Helps to Reduce Mass failure in JAMB, UTME And CBT Exams

In our recent post on Brainfriend software,we showed you how you can get the software on you mobile phone,the aim of this post is to give you full explanation of what Brainfriend software can help you to achieve, especially CBT exams.

The National Information Technology
Development Agency, NITDA, is
spearheading efforts to use local soda software
application to remedy examination
malpractice and failure in the country. The
efforts resulted in the endorsement of
exam software, BrainFriend which was
designed to reduce mass failure in the
Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examinations, UTME organised by Joint
Admissions Matriculation Board, JAMB,
among other examinations.

Two companies, Cinfores Limited and WaveTek Nigeria which developed the software, last week signed a memorandum of understanding witnessed by the Technology Agency.

According to the companies, the solution
was developed to address the increasing
rate of mass failure in national
examinations in Nigeria through the use of
Information and Communication
Technology.

The solution according to the companies
will be a game changer and make more
candidates to be successful in their national
exams especially the forthcoming JAMB
UTME and related exams.

Meanwhile, the partners have customized a
special version, JAMB BrainFriend, for the
forthcoming 2015 JAMB UTME and
expressed optimism that it could stamp out
mass failure and high rate of examination
fraud in the country.

Local content
Speaking on the development, the Director
General of NITDA, Mr. Peter Jack, said the
agency keyed into the initiative as part of its
effort to deepen and encourage local
content development in education and
other sectors of the economy as mandated
by the ACT setting up the agency.

“Based on the transformation agenda of Mr.
President, the Federal Government of
Nigeria is doing everything possible to
ensure that the Nigerian educational
system is improved and made world
class.“There is certain decline in quality of
education in our country.

“ The mass failure in UTME and other
national examinations in recent years, is a
mixture of many things including the non-
availability of quality local resources to
change the tide of mass failure and exam
malpractice that has plagued the nation,”
he said.

He said that NITDA as an IT agency was
committed to transforming every sector in
the country through the introduction of ICT
solutions.

He pointed out that in its various efforts to
ensure qualitative education in the country,
NITDA would engage various local and
international organisations to develop
locally adapted solutions that will meet the
needs of the sector.

He added that the agency would do
everything possible to support the solution
and make it available to all the NITDA digital
centres across the country, to enable the
candidates access the software. More so,
Jack promised to reach out to the NCC and
the USPF to make available the software in
their Community Communication Centres
in other to extend the reach of the software
to all Nigerian students, especially the
candidates who cannot afford either a PC or
mobile device to activate the software for
their personal use.

Why BrainFriend?
In his remarks, the Managing Director of
Cinfores Limited, Mr. Asawo Ibifuro, said
the software has been approved by the
Federal Ministry of Education, NERDC and
NITDA.

He explained that the customized version
has many features including over 20,000
questions, answers and explanations, 19
JAMB subjects/ subject combinations for
the major disciplines, prototype past JAMB
questions, career counseling guide, quick
references and study notes, performance
tracking, summary and questions on the
UTME 2015 special, among others.

Also, the Managing Director of WaveTek
Nigeria Limited, Mr. Ken Spann, said the
two companies realized the danger of mass
examination failure in Nigeria, a reason, he
said informed the development of JAMB
BrainFriend software.

Spann who had earlier spent about eleven
years promoting Microsoft Education via
Microsoft IT Academies at Microsoft USA
and Nigeria respectively, further enthused
that, “Through WaveTek’s strong network in
education, we are collaborating with
Cinfores as their marketing partner and
ensuring that BrainFriend is used by the
over 1.4 million candidates registered for
JAMB UTME scheduled for March, 2015″.

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