Some candidates of the on-going Unified
Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, said
aside the lateness in starting the examination,
a bigger challenge was with the English
Language paper as answers to some of the
questions were not made available.
Speaking to Vanguard, Miss Basirat Jerah,
whose examination center was at the Yaba
College of Technology, said “the examination
scheduled to commerce at 6:30am started by
8:45am as a result of server failure, but the
surprising aspect was that some of the
questions on English Language were wrong as
the answers were not in the options given.
Only God knows what would become our fate
as we pray JAMB officials would consider this
when marking and grading us.”
Collaborating Jerah's claims is Miss Precious
Ogunlele who also wrote the exam at Yaba
College of Technology, who said “Questions
11-20 of English Language were incorrect as
the answers were not on the options. We only
pray and hope this would be taken into
consideration so as not to negatively affect
our scores.”
When contacted, the Public Relations Officer,
JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said the portion in
question is the comprehension part whereby
they have to fill in the gaps.
He said “You know these students are in a
hurry to finish and most of them don't take
their time to go through the questions. Even
some candidates in one of the centers I visited
pointed out that to me and I had to explain to
them that in comprehension, you have to fill in
the gaps. I can assure you that JAMB didn't
make any mistake when setting the questions.”
Title : WHY STUDENTS FAIL THE 2016 JAMB
Description : Some candidates of the on-going Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME , said aside the lateness in starting the examination, a...