Some candidates who sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME,
organised by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, have rejected their scores to the examination being sent to their
phones, saying the results are beyond their expectations.
Speaking to Vanguard Learning, some candidates said JAMB is intentionally tampering with and
failing candidates.
For Anuoluwapo Oni, “I wrote the exam on March 5 but my result was tampered with as another
person’s result was sent to me and posted on the JAMB website.
Please note that I am not the
only one with this problem, and we need a platform to voice our complaints.”
For Joy Ezeani, “2016 UTME candidates,
especially those that took their exams on 8th
to10th of March 2016, are pleading with JAMB
officials to stop scoring us too low.
The systems
we used were not good as they were always
tripping off and we would have to wait for the
server to come up. That really wasted our time.”
In the same vein, Femi Adeoti said “JAMB is
intentionally failing candidates and most of my
friends and classmates are negatively affected.
If you do very well, JAMB will score you 36 or
less. I am really pained because I am a
distinction student from Yaba College of
Technology, so I wonder how I can score 184 in
ordinary UTME. Please help us get our messages
across.”
Calling for the scrapping of JAMB as its objectives have been compromised, 22 years old
Umar Ali from Kano State, said this year’s
examinations show that JAMB can’t organise
credible assessment of students for admission
into tertiary institutions.
He said: “The CBT mode of examination is a very
good development if there is constant electricity,
but this year’s exam was conducted at a time
when electricity generation is below 1,570 MW. “
from News From Schools in Nigeria