Posted on: 03:37 Tue, 01 Mar 2016



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.

Source:- Vanguard