The 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, has come and gone, but not with avoidable mistakes as widely argued.
Below are 7 of them:
1. Registration hassle: The flaws of 2017 UTME started from the tedious registration procedure. In April when the process it’s at its height, two female candidates waiting to register slumped at the entrance of the Niger state zonal office. While some take days to get themselves registered, some others sleep at registration centres overnight. JAMB can do better.
2. Invalid pin: Despite the fact that JAMB went fully digital in registration and actual examination, candidates still pay more to earn less. A candidate in Kaduna Faith Takai said she paid for PIN twice because the first one she bought was invalid. Several other cases of this abound.
3. Inadequate centres: About 1.7 million candidates registered for the 2017 UTME and sat for the examination in 642 centres across the country. It falls to a ratio of about 2650 candidates per centre. This obviously explains overcrowding ate centres and its unacceptable in the 21st century.
4. Far Centres: Some candidates registered in a geo-political zone and have his or her centre in another. This caused deaths of many candidates in years past and JAMB has failed to learn from this again.
5. Late result: As far back as 2010, Nigerian universities who conduct paper test post-UTME release result hours after the examination. However, in 2017, JAMB delayed each result with at least 48 hours. The first set that wrote the examination on Saturday and got their results on Monday. This is against JAMB’s claim that all result were released within 24 hours.
6. Endless queue: The queue started with registration but more worse is the queue at examination centres. Several pictures online shows how candidates queue for hours in sun before it reaches their turn to write examination.
7. Late malpractice review: Speaking on Channels TV days after the completion of the examination, JAMB registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, said his agency had been busy in the past days reviewing recorded footages of the examination across the country, and that a number of candidates had been marked out for sanction.
“But those who have not (received their results), they may not be culpable but we are investigating. Where we have reason to doubt anything or where we have report of anything that is not acceptable to us, we have withheld the results.
For how long will JAMB investigate a 3-hour examination?
Below are 7 of them:
1. Registration hassle: The flaws of 2017 UTME started from the tedious registration procedure. In April when the process it’s at its height, two female candidates waiting to register slumped at the entrance of the Niger state zonal office. While some take days to get themselves registered, some others sleep at registration centres overnight. JAMB can do better.
2. Invalid pin: Despite the fact that JAMB went fully digital in registration and actual examination, candidates still pay more to earn less. A candidate in Kaduna Faith Takai said she paid for PIN twice because the first one she bought was invalid. Several other cases of this abound.
3. Inadequate centres: About 1.7 million candidates registered for the 2017 UTME and sat for the examination in 642 centres across the country. It falls to a ratio of about 2650 candidates per centre. This obviously explains overcrowding ate centres and its unacceptable in the 21st century.
4. Far Centres: Some candidates registered in a geo-political zone and have his or her centre in another. This caused deaths of many candidates in years past and JAMB has failed to learn from this again.
5. Late result: As far back as 2010, Nigerian universities who conduct paper test post-UTME release result hours after the examination. However, in 2017, JAMB delayed each result with at least 48 hours. The first set that wrote the examination on Saturday and got their results on Monday. This is against JAMB’s claim that all result were released within 24 hours.
6. Endless queue: The queue started with registration but more worse is the queue at examination centres. Several pictures online shows how candidates queue for hours in sun before it reaches their turn to write examination.
7. Late malpractice review: Speaking on Channels TV days after the completion of the examination, JAMB registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, said his agency had been busy in the past days reviewing recorded footages of the examination across the country, and that a number of candidates had been marked out for sanction.
“But those who have not (received their results), they may not be culpable but we are investigating. Where we have reason to doubt anything or where we have report of anything that is not acceptable to us, we have withheld the results.
For how long will JAMB investigate a 3-hour examination?
