Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja, that was her center.
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.

Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.

We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies. Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate.
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.

A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it.
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?

Mods please push to front page

Nawa o.
Everything in this country is in disarray.

Even after spending billions on our electioneering we still could not get it right, now jamb.

Give Nigeria an egg and watch it become a kernel, Give Nigeria some grains and watch it become sands... Nigeria cant ever be used as a yardstick of measuring development cos everything we are been offered always become like a curse. Take a look at religion, politics, socialism etc then you'll understand better.

This is what happens to a so called country built on tribalism and nepotism.

Where the brightest citizens are ruled by quota system opportunists

JAMB makes fool of itself and shows great incompetence in the conduct UTME mock.
Why should JAMB post a candidate to an examination town different from the candidate's choice. Some candidates have had to abandoned their exams because of logistics and security problems arising from this wicked act of jamb.
Imagine forcing a minor to travel about 200km to a strange geo-political zone amidst bad road, possible kidnapping and incurring hotel cost for sleeping over, all in name of writing UTME mock.
This is greatly unfair to candidates no matter the reasons advanced for this practice. Above all, exam is meant for the living as such JAMB must learn to respect the choices made by it's candidates.

Jamb go copy from inec because the government is dead

I Jo say you be woman... Na who you dey write all this episode for? Shey you no know say na Naija you dey?

Sincerely speaking jamb should be scrapped, it’s no more relevant to the old days,
They are just making money every year selling forms when they already know the candidate school can accept in a year… no improvement except they now have CBT

Mummyfour:
Students from far and near went to their different jamb exam centers to write the mock exams today.

The exam was supposed to be in two batches.
There was a batch A that was slated for7 am and candidates were expected to have been seated by 6:30 am, then there was the 9 am batch and the candidates were also expected to have been in their centers by 8:30 am.
I actually took my daughter to the CBT professional test centre at bwari FCT not few metres away from the JAMB head office here In Abuja
, that was her center
It was an annoying situation when even as at 12:30 pm the candidates that were billed for the 7am exams had not started.
Parents that were waiting for their children became apprehensive and couldn't just understand what the delay was about.
Most of the children had not eaten and some parents had actually done drop off with the mind of coming later for their ward.

Most of the children that had been dropped off, had no money, phones or even food because they felt they could endure whatever hunger until after the exams.

At about 12:40pm, 3 coaster buses drove into the centre and the staff and security personnel at the centre began to direct some of the children to get on the buses.
In the process, some parents raised alarm and began to shout even as they wondered at the rationale behind such action.
At a point some of the children that had seen parents yelling at them to get off the buses, quickly did.

Meanwhile before then, no body not a even staff came out to address the waiting parents as to what was really going on, and when parents asked them, all they were told was that network was slow thereby affecting "thumb printing", for 6 hours?

It was at the point when parents were yelling at the gate that the Registrar of Jamb drove in with 3 Hilux trucks of security men armed to the teeth.

He grudgingly stepped out to address the parents because they compelled him to.
Before then, parents had begun to look for snacks and drinks for their children who had started complaining of hunger. They kept on coming to the gate to talk and complain to their parents, because they were not in the exam hall, but under a makeshift tent.
Some were even feeling sleepy and tired after staying up late to read at night.

The Registrar with every sense of pomposity told us that we were breaking the law because we came close to the gate to give our hungry children food and drinks.
It's not as if they made any provisions for the children o.
We were even expecting him as a father to sympathize with the children and beg them for understanding being their fault that their systems were not working.

When he said that, all hell let loose.
Parents began to scream at him out of anger, because we were expecting some kind of explanation or even apologies., Instead he told us that we should not have come close to the gate.

I asked him how we would have been able to pass on the food items to our children, and that if they had done the right thing, there would not have been any reason for parents to come close to the gate
At that question, he began to ramble and tell us stories of network failure and all those annoying lies.

He subsequently told us that the second batch were to get on the buses and go and write the exam in jamb office.
A parent asked how the children will come back to the original center they were posted and he swore that the buses will bring them back

To cut the story short, the exams actually started at 3:45pm and ended at 5:30pm.

And the shocker we received was that those children that were taken to the jamb office had to trek all the way back to their former center, except for those that their parents took them their with either bikes or vehicles.

I don't know when we will get it right in this country.
Ordinary mock jamb in FCT..
So how would it be in other states and local government areas?.

It keeps getting worse every year.
And those children came out of the center broken, dissolutioned, and frustrated. You could see the children that were all fired up in the morning, and ready to do justice to the Mock exam, coming out very cold and troubled.

I have said it, let us go back to the days of shading with HB pencil abeg
It's not worth it
We can't seem to get any thing right in this country.
Ordinary computer based test?
Mods please push to front page

Sorry for your experience, I support the bolded. Shade and computer will mark it, it's better that way.

Too much terrible stories from Jamb these days since this their cbt started, lot of these children fail the exams due to no fault of theirs.

Anything that will use tech/ network for a large number of people at once in this country will have one flop or the other.

NoToPile:



Sorry for your experience, I support the bolded. Shade and computer will mark it, it's better that way.

Too much terrible stories from Jamb these days since this their cbt started, lot of these children fail the exams due to no fault of theirs.

Anything that will use tech/ network for a large number of people at once in this country will have one flop or the other.

Hmmm.. it's a crying shame really.

While I sympathize with your situation, but does this not further highlight the fact that the acclaimed IT issues INEC had is just a common feature of the many failings in the country?

Should we now say JAMB wants to rig exam results too?

NoToPile:



Sorry for your experience, I support the bolded. Shade and computer will mark it, it's better that way.

Too much terrible stories from Jamb these days since this their cbt started, lot of these children fail the exams due to no fault of theirs.

Anything that will use tech/ network for a large number of people at once in this country will have one flop or the other.

Yet, many were expecting magic - for INEC to have over 170,000 polling units results all uploaded at the same time.

We're funny in this country.

Same thing happened in Ibadan..

Same thumbprint issues.

The students started around 4pm in ib too..

Meanwhile if you see the amount of money being generated by JAMB every year, people are just cashing out with the misfortunes in this country. It's well.

I think it was a general problem... 7am candidates in some centres in Lagos didn't write till evening. I know of some that got home by 8pm after leaving home around 6am in the morning

Some other centres even asked them to go home that JAMB will reschedule them to another date, only for them to hear that other centres wrote theirs by evening

Tinubu must work on internet speed.
We must have internet speed of modern society.

Nigeria system will always find a way to frustrate you.

@Mummyfour

I was among Jamb staffs. It's not thumb printing anything. Jamb is no longer using autobot jamb software they used last year. They are now using Custom browser.

Now they didn't inform Jamb centres of this latest development until a day before the mock exam when they came to run dummy test.

There were flaws in the software because the one developed for 32bit operating system was not working. Even the 64 bit system only run on Windows 10 with latest Java installed. All these things where discovered on ground on the mock day. We closed by 10:30pm because we were trying to understand how the software runs. Even on the mock day, any centre that didn't start exactly the stipulated time by jamb will be automatically rescheduled to afternoon which likely played out here.

It was later in the day that we were told to use latest chrome browser to login using our server IP for each candidates system. It was hell. I Blame Jamb HQ for testing new innovation on ground instead of within.

Seun mynd44

Inec and jamb na the same thing


One spend billions to conduct nonsense, they other generate billions with nothing to show for it

Sometimes I wonder if God is really aware Nigeria exists

Nigeria is finished, until these crop of evil politicians are flushed out...

Luckysbab:


Yet, many were expecting magic - for INEC to have over 170,000 polling units results all uploaded at the same time.

We're funny in this country.

Those expecting magic were out of tune with reality. Something must go wrong.

Northernblood7:
@Mummyfour

I was among Jamb staffs. It's not thumb printing anything. J amb is no longer using autobot jamb software they used last year. They are now using Custom browser.

Now they didn't inform Jamb centres of this latest development until a day before the mock exam when they came to run dummy test.

There were flaws in the software because the one developed for 32bit operating system was not working. Even the 64 bit system only run on Windows 10 with latest Java installed. All these things where discovered on ground on the mock day. We closed by 10:30pm because we were trying to understand how the software runs. Even on the mock day, any centre that didn't start exactly the stipulated time by jamb will be automatically rescheduled to afternoon which likely played out here.

It was later in the day that we were told to use latest chrome browser to login using our server IP for each candidates system. It was hell. I Blame Jamb HQ for testing new innovation on ground instead of within.

Seun mynd44

This is terrible. So you were doing the 2nd bolded for each system as in candidate by candidate?

Nawa.

Anyway anything govt does that will involve IT for a large number of people in this country would almost always have one issue or the other.

Ordinary online applications for govt jobs will have issues there's a substantial amount of people applying.

NoToPile:



This is terrible. So you were doing the 2nd bolded for each system as in candidate by candidate?

Nawa.

Anyway anything govt does that will involve IT for a large number of people in this country would almost always have one issue or the other.

Ordinary online applications for govt jobs will have issues there's a substantial amount of people applying.

Yes o. One after the other for more than 1000 systems with candidates waiting outside. The worst part is that by 2pm if candidates and centre are not ready to jump into the opened server, after 15 minutes the server will shut and those that didn't jump in will have to wait till 6pm.

Another inec

Northernblood7:


Yes o. One after the other for more than 1000 systems with candidates waiting outside. The worst part is that by 2pm if candidates and centre are not ready to jump into the opened server, after 15 minutes the server will shut and those that didn't jump in will have to wait till 6pm.

Kai I can't imagine, it is well

I'm not surprised by anything again in this country seriously,this downhill slope will continue for long.

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JAMB is not as tough as it was last 10 years

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