DELSU To Conduct Aptitude Test For 2017 Admission Screening Exercise

The Delta State university (DELSU) has disclosed
that it will conduct an aptitude test for
candidates applying for the 2017 admission into
undergraduate programmes offered in the
university.
This was disclosed by the Registrar of the
university, Daniel Urhibo when contacted by
newsmen.
He however stated that the aptitude test the
school is going to conduct is quite different from
the one conducted by JAMB and it will be
computer-based.
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When asked to state the difference between the
computer based test the school is going to
conduct and the Post-UTME test that was
abolished by JAMB last year, the Registrar told
newsmen that the Federal Government did not
scrap post-UTME test.
He explained: “It is the same agency of the
government that said ‘you can select your
students’.
“Twenty-six thousand candidates applied to
DELSU; how do you select, may be 5,000 or
6,000? There must be some kind of uniform test
to assess them.
“Last year, we asked them to submit their
secondary school results and we graded them.
Do you know that people claiming to have ‘A’s in
their results could not write their names?
“Some of them had forged results. We went to
the internet and discovered that somebody who
claimed to have scored 300 in UTME had just
120.
“So, if you use that type, you won’t get the best;
that is why there is some kind of a little aptitude
test for them.”
Regarding the N5000 candidates are expected to
pay for the screening as against the 2,500
approved by the federal Government last year, he
said that the N5000 is to cover the cost of the
aptitude test as the schools is not in good
financial position to cover the cost.
He mentioned that the school need money to get
materials for the test, pay those that will
administer the aptitude test and mark it as well
as service its computers and develop the
software for the test.