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THE Executive Secretary, Benue State Examination Board Mr. Isaac Hon said severe sanctions will be meted out on schools that failed to participate in the just concluded mock Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE).

Mr. Hon who made this known in an interview with The Nigeria Standard in his office in Makurdi said already names of schools that did not participate in the just concluded mock SSCE across the state are being compiled with a view to meting out appropriate punitive measures on such schools by the ministry.

According to the Executive Secretary, the essence of the exams was to test students capacity in various subjects, adding that if a student performs well in mock SSCE examination, it is an indication that such a student will perform well both in his or her West African Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) or the need for such a student to sit up in case of abysmal performance.

Hon who blamed most of the lapses experienced during the exercise on nonchalant attitudes  of some schools who came for registration after the examination had commenced lamented the way and manner the standard of the exams was being compromised when its conduct was left in the hands of private individuals.

The Executive Secretary told Sunday Standard that why private schools are reluctant in registering for the mock examination was due to the four thousand naira cost of registration fee as against fifteen to eighteen thousand Naira charged by private school owners, revealing that modalities are being worked out to effect an upward review of registration fee due to skyrocketed cost of materials.

Condemning the arbitrary charges by private school owners who turned the examination into a condute pipe to extort money from parents and guardians as cost of registration fee, the executive secretary said it became necessary to withdraw conduct of the examination from private schools in order to save parents from further extortion.

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