This year's UTME is perhaps the worst organised exam in the history of this nation. The first discrepancy came when JAMB informed the nation that the exam would start on 29th of February, only for the students to discover after checking the site that it would start on 27th February. The students that sat the exam on Saturday, 27th and Monday 29th February and who were expecting very good results had very woeful ones. JAMB must have realized something was wrong somewhere that it quickly added 40 phantom marks for all of them.
Another area of complaint by the students is that they performed very poorly where they were expecting good marks and did very well in subjects they hardly touched because of inadequate time. Majority also complained about the servers in the centres and even the computers.
One pertinent question we need to ask JAMB is- Where did the 40 marks given to the students come from, and why was it deducted in the first place ? Do we parents just fold our hands and watch our children waste another year at home because of a fault not completely theirs ? One very glaring factor in this year's exam is that JAMB is not ready yet for CBT. Why don't we just go back to our paper and pencil exam ?