Last year, a female candidate applied to study economics in University of Ibadan (UI) with excellent results in School Certificate Examination and Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB)’s examination. Specifically, the female potential student of Economics paraded eight distinctions (A1) in eight subjects at the school certificate level and 284 marks in JAMB conducted examination – Fantastic results combination that attracted UI to invite her for “interaction”, UI’s model of Post University Matriculation Examination (UME) test. At the post UME interaction, the panel members were so “impressed” with her supposed results, that they had almost asked her to take a bow and go until someone from the panel, probably out of curiosity, posted a simple question to her. Young lady, with your results, you are definitely going to lead the class, but before you go, as a prospective economics student, what is GDP? Dazed. The lady began to fidget, scratching her head as she started sweating. Initially, some of the panel members thought she was intimidated by the presence of some professors, thereby, giving her time to relax. But, alas, the candidate bungled as she later confessed that someone wrote the exams for her. In other words, the results were not hers. However, this mumbo-jumbo was only uncovered at the post UME interaction! If that was a ludicrous case in the faculty of the Social Sciences, a similar mendacious situation occurred during the Post-UME test in the Faculty of Arts, in which a candidate with equally considered “good results” who wanted to study English could not spell “island, tomorrow and occasion.” Yet, this was a candidate with distinctions and 275 marks in JAMB’s examination. These two cases are just illustrations of the beauty of post-UME interaction, an integrity check in the university admission process. With these kinds of experiences during the post-UME interaction year in, year out. One is therefore left curious and confused when Hon. Samson Positive from Kogi state sponsored a motion recently, that the federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) cancel the so-called post-UME. His argument was that post- UME test was an additional burden to the students seeking admission into the universities, more so, many parents could not afford the cost. He further posited that many universities were using Post- UME test to generate money, thereby extorting prospective students. Unfortunately, the lawmaker did not tell the nation how he came about this ridiculous conclusion from his wrong assumptions. He did not tell his colleagues how many universities he visited in the course of his research and how many parents complained about the cost as well as how he measured the burdensomeness constituted by the conduct of the post-UME to student seeking university admission. Indeed, a wrong problem diagnosis will always lead to a wrong prescription. It is stating the obvious to say that the motion;, which was more impetuous than methodical has been generating a serious concern among the stakeholders because it is fraud tendentious. Without any fear of contradiction, one can authoritatively assert that many of the “fantastic results” being paraded by some of the admission seekers are phony. Some of these results from WAEC, NECO and JAMB are, to say the least, the voice of Jacob and the hand of Esau: It is only during the post-UME interaction (at least, as far as I know, in UI) that the buried truth resurrects. That WAEC, NECO and JAMB results need further scrutiny is not in doubt. The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan, Prof. Olufemi Bamiro while kicking against cancellation of Post-UME disclosed eI personally participated in the supervision of the last UTME in Ibadan. Several candidates were caught with mobile telephone sets containing answers to the JAMB examination questions and JAMB itself had to withhold the results of thousand of candidates for reasons not far. Removed from examination malpractice in one form or the other.” Prof. Bamiro further said, there is no gain saying the fact that for every candidate caught, these are most likely several others who have escaped with unmerited marks, yet, these are the candidates who will be right in front for admission. As a matter of fact, this is what informed the need for post-UME. What is Post-UME? Post – UME, to use the UI model as an example, is a kind of interaction based on information elicitation technique with a view to authenticating the claims of the candidate’s academic profile. In UI’s post-UME interaction model, candidates are not made to sit for another set of examination. Rather, it is an interaction of less than 20 minutes during which candidates are orally asked a few questions relating to their proposed fields of study. For example, a candidate who wants to study Economics is asked to say something about GDP, IMF or Bank reform. Where is the burden in this? UI’s post-UME model is so transparent that every candidate knows his fate immediately. If you can not answer three questions correctly from five, who will offer you admission? However, when people are now calling for the cancellation of this type of quality assurance mechanism, as a result of ignorance or less informed scholastic research into the matter, it is apparent that there is hollowness in the advocacy. If universities will not become breeding grounds for ill-baked, sophomoric and dilettantish graduates, then, post UME test must remain to be part of our admission process criteria Since its introduction in UI four years ago, the percentage of withdrawal level has reduced drastically. In fact, post- UME test has a correlation with the general good performance at the under graduate level. Between year 2000 and 2008, the average first-class graduates we have is 63, but last year, (2009) being the year of the first set of post-UME candidates, we have 99 students graduating with first class. Isn’t that impressive? Cancellation of post-UME test cannot do us any good! National Assembly should not be seen as invalidating misnomer. It breeds intellectual irritation when people legislate without data. As a matter of fact, legislating without data is like embarking on a journey without road map. National Assembly must not make a shipwreck of this brilliant idea of post- UME test because this motion looks more like on act of impulse than calm deliberation! Sunday Saanu(08059436919) University of Ibadan sundaysaanu@yahoo.com
Ui.edu.ng/postume

k

all what he had just said is for his personal benefits, using the advantage of his experience to exploits us,it must end, two exams for a single result!!!!! ,don't you even consider our pockets,one must be forgone either utme or putme

FIVE REASONS WHY POST UTME SHOULD NOT BE SCRAPPED.
"If universities will not become breeding grounds for ill-baked, sophomoric and dilettantish graduates, then, post UTME test must remain to be part of our admission process criteria."
http:///NUi4IJ

Cooked up story.

Insightful

Op U re entitled to your own opinion.
As far as I'm concern the nation have faith in what jamb is doing...post ume is irrelevant

Am totally against the scrapping of post utme in higher institutions. Basically its gonna affect the average students/those who didn't influence their results.

If the order stands. Institutions would be forced to admit students based on how high they score in utme. This might look valid on the surface though, but come on, we all know how messed up the examining system is and how it is prone to malpractices.

I graduated from OAU. And its not uncommon to see candidates who scored bout 270 in utme flunk their post utme. Why? Dude/bae have runzed the exam.

The implication is that normal students who didn't runz or pull any string who scored an average score of bout 200-230 won't get admitted cos the institutions especially the federal ones won't go for less.
But then what do we know?, we are just wailers after all.

Going by some of the threads I've seen on nairaland, post utme has to stay. It's on nairaland one ijiot came here to rant that he is sure his script was marked wrongfully as his teachers wrote the exams for him, it's on nairaland that I saw threads like NECO Geography answers, WAEC Mathematics Objective. Yes, I know it's difficult for most people to come up with the cash for the exams plus when you factor in the stress of travelling but there is the need to encourage the culture of excellence.

Anyone who wants POST-UTME to be scrapped is a cheat and a thief !!!

Yes that is what I feel.
I finished from OAU.
Ever since POST-UTME was introduced, rate of academic dropouts reduced drastically. So many students cheat and 'runs' their JAMB.
POST-UTME helps to weed all these cheats.

I have a friend who cheated in 3 JAMB exams. He failed to pass OAU POST-UTME on all 3 occasions. On one occasion he travelled all the way to another state to runs his exam.There was a year, he scored 300+ in JAMB but in POST-UTME he got 7x/400.

The arguments for POST-UTME cancellation are not valid at all.

Transport Cost: So when you gain admission, you won't travel at all right? Nonsense.

POST-UTME Fee: It can't be free. Lecturers that would invigilate the exam have to be paid. Questions have to be printed.

Which last year b ds wey you cite @ OP...dsame 2015?...maka why...you can lie ehn OP...since when UI don scrap 'interview'...dz that wrote the first putme re now in 500lvl...salvation is free OP!

jamb should be scrapped instead because as far as i know, jamb is worthless, let all schools conduct their exams directly to their prospective candidate and more so, this will be advantageous to the less privileged peeps and admission seekers will also have course to diverse to any versity for knowledge so long he or shr has the finance to acquire the skul examination's form.....

Wizzy14418:
Which last year b ds wey you cite @ OP...dsame 2015?...maka why...you can lie ehn OP...since when UI don scrap 'interview'...dz that wrote the first putme re now in 500lvl...salvation is free OP!

mumu like you. So u did not see ''an impressive throwback comment''? It seems u don't what throwback means. E-diat!!

This post alone wipes the entire argument out of court. Post utme should stay!

I'm sitting on the fence as far this decision is concerned.

Nigeria always has a way of making even the best policies look haphazard.

But to cite cheating in JAMB as a reason for the opposition against scraping Post-UTME is mostly unreasonable.

As far as I know, cheating in JAMB is almost unachievable these days with CBT.

The funny thing is these corrupt and hypocritical schools also accuse JAMB of corruption, when in fact they are the masters of corruption.

A student scores really high, then sits back to see people with much inferior scores getting admitted into the choicest courses while the better students get nothing!

If it's only for the benefit of students, why do they generate massive amount of money from the scheme.
Many schools generate over 500 million Naira from the scheme and everyone is ignoring such blatant extortion.


These rogues even keep extending application deadline when it's obvious they have very limited slots.

FUTA last year, released a supplementary form for new courses late into the admission processes just to capitalize on the desperation of students who had already missed earlier lists.
They raised the fee of course generating close to 200 million Naira. even though they needed to fill just about 800 slots, they advertised all over Social and print media and ended up getting around 26,000 applicants.

Let FG scrap Post UTME as from next year and work really hard to ensure JAMB rewards students proportionally to their efforts.

Elxandre:
I'm sitting on the fence as far this decision is concerned.

Nigeria always has a way of making even the best policies look haphazard.

But to cite cheating in JAMB as a reason for the opposition against scraping Post-UTME is mostly unreasonable.

As far as I know, cheating in JAMB is almost unachievable these days with CBT.

The funny thing is these corrupt and hypocritical schools also accuse JAMB of corruption, when in fact they are the masters of corruption.

A student scores really high, then sits back to see people with much inferior scores getting admitted into the choicest courses while the better students get nothing!

If it's only for the benefit of students, why do they generate massive amount of money from the scheme.
Many schools generate over 500 million Naira from the scheme and everyone is ignoring such blatant extortion.


These rogues even keep extending application deadline when it's obvious they have very limited slots.

FUTA last year, released a supplementary form for new courses late into the admission processes just to capitalize on the desperation of students who had already missed earlier lists.
They raised the fee of course generating close to 200 million Naira. even though they needed to fill just about 800 slots, they advertised all over Social and print media and ended up getting around 26,000 applicants.

Let FG scrap Post UTME as from next year and work really hard to ensure JAMB rewards students proportionally to their efforts.

So they shouldn't advertise the exams. They should let only a few take the exams. You prefer that thousands would complain of not taking the exam. You don't think everyone should be given a fair chance of proving he/her self.
You said they don't cheat with CBT? You know nothing Jon Snow.

Elxandre:
I'm sitting on the fence as far this decision is concerned.

Nigeria always has a way of making even the best policies look haphazard.

But to cite cheating in JAMB as a reason for the opposition against scraping Post-UTME is mostly unreasonable.

As far as I know, cheating in JAMB is almost unachievable these days with CBT.

The funny thing is these corrupt and hypocritical schools also accuse JAMB of corruption, when in fact they are the masters of corruption.

A student scores really high, then sits back to see people with much inferior scores getting admitted into the choicest courses while the better students get nothing!

If it's only for the benefit of students, why do they generate massive amount of money from the scheme.
Many schools generate over 500 million Naira from the scheme and everyone is ignoring such blatant extortion.


These rogues even keep extending application deadline when it's obvious they have very limited slots.

FUTA last year, released a supplementary form for new courses late into the admission processes just to capitalize on the desperation of students who had already missed earlier lists.
They raised the fee of course generating close to 200 million Naira. even though they needed to fill just about 800 slots, they advertised all over Social and print media and ended up getting around 26,000 applicants.

Let FG scrap Post UTME as from next year and work really hard to ensure JAMB rewards students proportionally to their efforts.

I love your last line but jamb it not nothing to write about this year.what they should have done is reduce both jamb fee and post jamb fee to a fixed price for all schools simple.

promise4040:
mumu like you. So u did not see ''an impressive throwback comment''? It seems u don't what throwback means. E-diat!!

You wey wise wey no read,...won't trade words wf a nothing like u.peace bro

chistev12:
This post alone wipes the entire argument out of court. Post utme should stay!

Even when U.I did the interactive post utme it was all formalities because then the cut off were set on results from both SSCE and JAMB. 60% SSCE and 40% UME. Most people pass the interview then. Once u were invited, its as good as u already gained admission.

wman:



So they shouldn't advertise the exams. They should let only a few take the exams. You prefer that thousands would complain of not taking the exam. You don't think everyone should be given a fair chance of proving he/her self.
You said they don't cheat with CBT? You know nothing Jon Snow.

Job snow kor Ed stark ni.

Cheating with CBT is minimal.

What is the difference between JAMB'S inefficiency and the corruption happening in these Schools where the ratio of Merit to Connection on the admission lists is 20:80%?

You don't get it.
They refused to include these new courses in the admission package because they already had a devious plan to generate almost 200 million Naira with fresh forms when the students got desperate after missing out on a few lists.

Why was there uproar about the shady Immigration recruitment exercise where multitudes were invited to an exam with very few slots?

Elxandre:
Job snow kor Ed stark ni.

Cheating with CBT is minimal.

What is the difference between JAMB'S inefficiency and the corruption happening in these Schools where the ratio of Merit to Connection on the admission lists is 20:80%?

You don't get it.
They refused to include these new courses in the admission package because they already had a devious plan to generate almost 200 million Naira with fresh forms when the students got desperate after missing out on a few lists.

Why was there uproar about the shady Immigration recruitment exercise where multitudes were invited to an exam with very few slots?

Really appreciative of your own perspective concerning this issue, but here we are in Nigeria, where people draw out their conclusions without any prior assessment and it really sucks to go against something parochially. Let's try to evaluate and think wide before raising our flags of convictions or disapproval for every course. GOD BLESS NIGERIA !

LET'S CULTIVATE A GOOD HABIT OF ADDRESSING ISSUES !

Ephyartz:
Even when U.I did the interactive post utme it was all formalities because then the cut off were set on results from both SSCE and JAMB. 60% SSCE and 40% UME. Most people pass the interview then. Once u were invited, its as good as u already gained admission.

that Ssce method was thrash. Thank God they scrapped it. Cos many schools engaged in malpractice and ensured their students had B parallel while the ones of C6 will be left out

Elxandre:
I'm sitting on the fence as far this decision is concerned.

Nigeria always has a way of making even the best policies look haphazard.

But to cite cheating in JAMB as a reason for the opposition against scraping Post-UTME is mostly unreasonable.

As far as I know, cheating in JAMB is almost unachievable these days with CBT.

The funny thing is these corrupt and hypocritical schools also accuse JAMB of corruption, when in fact they are the masters of corruption.

A student scores really high, then sits back to see people with much inferior scores getting admitted into the choicest courses while the better students get nothing!

If it's only for the benefit of students, why do they generate massive amount of money from the scheme.
Many schools generate over 500 million Naira from the scheme and everyone is ignoring such blatant extortion.


These rogues even keep extending application deadline when it's obvious they have very limited slots.

FUTA last year, released a supplementary form for new courses late into the admission processes just to capitalize on the desperation of students who had already missed earlier lists.
They raised the fee of course generating close to 200 million Naira. even though they needed to fill just about 800 slots, they advertised all over Social and print media and ended up getting around 26,000 applicants.

Let FG scrap Post UTME as from next year and work really hard to ensure JAMB rewards students proportionally to their efforts.

People cheat in Jamb like rubbish. Well it's either that, or Jamb marks wrongly,cuz there is this girl I know... She stopped school at primary 2. She went to her uncle's school to continue education, and she advanced only because it was her uncle's school. A close relative of mine wanted to sponsor her to university. So he did a very basic interview. This was a supposed "graduate" of Secondary School, yet she could not spell most words. I'm talking simple words here, for example, asking a graduate to spell "word". My relative also went into maths,specifically asking her the square root of 4,and she couldn't give an answer. Even simplistic addition was unachievable by the supposed "graduate" of Secondary School. But, we decided to let her write Jamb anyway, and she got 200.
Tell me how that is possible for someone who can barely read. And there are smart guys I know that couldn't even make it up to 180. I'm talking people I'd be disappointed with if they scored less than 270.

In summary, Jamb is not a trustworthy body, and the future of our children's education should not be left solely in it's hands. At least, not until all it's flaws are eradicated.