If the Joint Admissions
and Matriculation Board (JAMB), an examination body, doesn't know the
difference between “access” and “assess”, then the Use of English results of
its candidates can't be 100% correct.
However, in
the English world, no one is immune from making errors. Even if you're an
English language major, you're still subject to grammatical and contextual
mistakes in your writing. There are two types of errors: error of ignorance and
error of carelessness.
In this case,
JAMB has made a contextual mistake because “accessing” should be used instead
of “assessing” except JAMB is talking about candidates' inability to evaluate
their results. But before you evaluate/assess your result, you must first access
it through any available means. So, what type of error do you think the
examination body has committed?
To
know the difference between ACCESS and ASSESS, check the screenshots below. In
the screenshots below, these words are used as verbs.
