Abstract
Registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, is
organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, for
admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This registration is conducted
in all the states in Nigeria in a given period of the year. Many a times, the
process is cumbersome, not organized and posses a lot of stress to students.
So, the goal of this project is to provide a readily accessible and userfriendly system for students to register for UTME online and also to access
the result of the examination online. This would be similar to other online
registration forms, but it will also feature the following advantages; as a
web-based system, students will be able to have access from any computer
that has a web browser and is connected to the Internet to register for
UTME, with a graphical interface, this system will be more user-friendly
and intuitive to use. The introduction of on-line registration was an
enormous improvement
1.1 Background of the Study
It is obvious globally that most candidates seeking admission to higher
education prefer universities. The Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME), however, will help recruit students to other kinds of
institutions such as the Polytechnic and the College of Education.
Emodi (2010) observed that our higher educational institutions are
confronted with the pressure of an increasing number of students demanding
for access. She stressed that students compete for the limited places in our
universities and that in all countries, admission into the top institutions have
become more difficult to achieve. Emodi therefore noted that competition
has always been a force in institutions of higher education and that in many
ways, it can help to produce excellence and best performance.
Adedoyin (2009) however canvassed for the approval of more private
tertiary institutions in Nigeria, adding that the number of Universities in the
country was inadequate and cannot satisfy the educational needs of the
Nigeria youths. This assertion is also true and applicable to both State and
Federal Universities in Nigeria, bearing in mind the number of candidates
seeking admission yearly.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was established in
Nigeria in 1978. Prior to this, each University was responsible for the
conduct of its own concessional examination and admitted its students. In
1987, JAMB performed the exemplary feat of printing examination
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materials in Nigeria. Since then, the Board’s question papers have always
been produced and answer scripts processed in Nigeria-Idoko (2008).
JAMB, which is now (1978-2010) 32years old, celebrated its 30th
anniversary of success (1978-2008) at the Headquarters office, Bwari,
Abuja. A review of JAMB activities after more than thirty years of
existence, with the introduction of UTME is seen as imperative and
justifiable.
1.2 Statement of the Problem
Manual registration and examination processing system in any process or
institution or exam body is always affected by delay, misplacement,
erroneous entries, etc. Examination registration is highly a critical issue as
students affected by these lapses may loose one year before they can register
for another exam. This leads to lost of resources, time, discouragement, and
defeat in academic pursuit. Going by this, it is evident that for an effective
administration of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, the
registration and examination result process has to be online.
1.3 Objectives of the Study
The objective of this project is to examine how unified tertiary and
matriculation examination system can be computerised, with the main
objective being to:
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1. Develop a website that can enable the JAMB administration to
process student‘s registration form.
2. Design an online examination processing system for UTME
3. Design a system that will allow students to check their results
online.
1.4 Purpose of the Project
The purpose of this study is to design an online database for unified tertiary
and matriculation examination for the purpose of online registration form for
student‘s examination registration and checking of result online.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Clear advantages of Internet information processing over those of traditional
manual system are higher yields. Online system allows the users to process
information online. There are many other advantages of online registration
for unified tertiary and matriculation examination system and some of them
are listed below.
It saves a lot of time.
Students registration data are secured
Accuracy of bio data is guaranteed
o It is very convenient to use.
o Information processing are very fast.
1.6 Scope of the Study
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This research work covers student‘s examination registration and printing of
registered candidates list online. It also covers post and checking students
result online.
1.7 Limitations
As a result of time constraints, the researcher was unable to visit JAMB Headquarter
Abuja to gather information on how they operate the unified tertiary and
matriculation examination registration. So, most of the information were
sourced from JAMB website and their state office in Enugu.
1.8 Definition of Terms
UTME: unified tertiary and matriculation examination
Competitive examination is an examination where candidates are ranked
according to their grades
Databases: A systematically arranged collection of computer data,
structured so that it can be automatically retrieved or manipulated. It is also
called databank.
File Transfer: Any kind of computer file can be sent via the Internet from
one Internet user to another. Table of accounts on spreadsheets, design by a
graphic artists, music sound files etc, can all be exchanged in this way.
Web Site: A website is a collection of many interconnected web pages
organized by a specific college, organization company etc, containing web
pages (good and commodities) on the Internet.
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Examination: is a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or
knowledge; “when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of
questions”