THEY SAID WHY IS 100 LEVEL STUDENT WRITING CBT EXAM? THEY SHOULD BE WRITING PAPER EXAM INSTEAD.

Okay.
Thank you.
We don hear.
But let me school you a bit on the language of education and progress.
I know I am gaining small small attention here.
I know that.
But yet, many of those who follow my page here or on Steemit do so because they feel I am blunt and real.
Now let's talk.
I once watched a man argue seriously that giving a student a computer to write exam is "forming too much."
That paper and pen is the original way.
That we should face our level.
Very passionate.
Very loud.
Very wrong.
Now imagine you are a fresh graduate going for a job interview at a tech company in Lagos or Abuja.
They ask you, "are you computer literate?"
And you say, "I wrote all my exams with paper and pen."
Would they employ you?
No.
They wouldn't.
You'll sound outdated before you even sit down.
This is how the world works.
The world doesn't wait for those who are comfortable with yesterday.
Do you know what CBT means beyond the exam hall?
Computer Based Testing is not just about answering questions on a screen.
It is orientation.
It is exposure.
It is the first handshake between a young Nigerian student and the digital world they are about to enter.
When a 100 level student sits in front of that computer and navigates that exam...
Something happens inside them.
A fear is broken.
A barrier is removed.
A muscle is trained.
Let me tell you something about paper exams.
Paper exams are not bad.
But paper exams belong to a world that is gradually becoming a museum.
WAEC is going digital.
JAMB is already digital.
The civil service exams are digital.
Bank job tests are digital.
Professional certifications are digital.
So why are we fighting to keep 100 level students in analogue when the entire pipeline ahead of them is digital?
Are we preparing them for the future or are we preserving our own comfort?
Some lecturers resist CBT because they are not comfortable with it themselves.
Some parents resist it because they didn't experience it.
Some students resist it because it is new and new things are uncomfortable.
But discomfort is where growth lives.
The students who wrote their first CBT exam shaking and sweating...
Are the same students who today navigate online portals, submit assignments digitally and apply for international scholarships without blinking.
Exposure does that to a person.
Early exposure does it faster.
Look at what countries that invested in digital education early are doing today.
Estonia taught their children to code from primary school.
South Korea put computers in classrooms before it was fashionable.
India made digital literacy a national agenda.
And today their young people are running tech companies, winning contracts and building solutions that the whole world is paying for.
Meanwhile we are still debating whether 100 level students should touch a keyboard in an exam hall.
The university is not just a place to acquire knowledge.
It is a place to acquire the behaviour of the world you are entering.
CBT is part of that behaviour.
It teaches time management on a screen.
It teaches focus in a digital environment.
It teaches the student that technology is not a luxury, it is a tool.
And a student who learns that tool early carries an advantage that cannot be taught in a classroom alone.
So when next somebody says "why are they giving these small boys and girls computer to write exam"...
Tell them the world they are protecting those children from is the same world those children will have to survive in.
The earlier they meet it, the better.
Our universities must change their methods to change the destiny of their students.
Perception is everything in diplomacy.
Preparation is everything in education.