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izzou:


[color=royalblue] Imagine the line of thought.

Tufiakwa [/color]

GloriousGbola:
it happens all the time in projects and you have definitely experienced it before. where you try to avoid the obvious solution because running it will be a pain in the ass and a significant disruption

last month, my system had an issue brought about by windows upate. i tried to fix it, and then the system refused to boot. i spent over 24 hours trying to fix the issue before i surrendered and reinstalled windows. because a reinstall is far more disruptive. we had the same issue ona project. the solution would require that we did extensive and expensive civil works. but after we tried everything else, we had no choice and we had to go with it

afrodoc:
See as I dey doubt myself say, “shey I no know the meaning of tomorrow again ni”?

afrodoc:
The resit is tomorrow? 😳

GloriousGbola:
setting up another exam will come with cost implications
jamb will have to pay the centers, mobilize invigilators, pay educare
students will have to do their logistics again

as an aside this is what makes NL work

a friends son scored 162 and i messaged her this morning. somehow she was not aware of everything going on. she hs checked and confirmed that the guy is resitting his jamb tomorrow. please contact anyone you know whose wards may have failed their jamb to do a re check ASAP

izzou:
[color=royalblue]So how should we trust anything from JAMB going forward?

Omoh.

How are we sure it is not more than 379k sef.[/color]

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I mean... it's very simple

JAMB released the results of 1.5 million candidates; 379,000 to resit because of technical glitches.

20% is not negligible. And to think that a whole region was affected, but the Prof that transformed UNILORIN to Harvard standard missed it.

A very good case to sue JAMB and collect damages [/color]

GloriousGbola:
i think more likely there was a consultation and it was agreed the glitch would not cause significant deviance in the results. and the challenges [cost implications, logistics etc] with running a new exam were presented and this was the path agreed.

i have been there before on projects.

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Only emotions will make me believe Oloyede.

Everything they did is parallel with what they are saying.

379000 is not some figure that is insignificant. That's 20% of the candidates. There is no way they would not have seen that before they announced the results.

Oloyede was well aware of what happened.

And who knows how long these glitches have distorted the destinies of previous candidates.[/color]

GloriousGbola:
if and when oloyede goes, we may go back to the days of JAMB asking the FG for more and more money to run the exams - people paying for everything in cash and multiple money eating snakes. it is difficult to build institutions in these parts because 90% of everyone else is just waiting to chop

afrodoc2:
I heard that this Registrar was very competent. It looks like some of his IT people dropped the ball badly and unfortunately, he might have to suffer for it. He seems to be trying to do the right thing because the JAMB of previous years would have denied even under threat of hellfire torture.

I had a classmate who would have scored the highest in JAMB if his result was released but it was withheld for some bogus reason. His parents went looking for the result personally in JAMB through official and informal means. He had to do JAMB again the next year and smashed it badly again and was one of the highest in the country but this time they released it.

I had another friend who i think had 8A1s and was always scoring 30-40 marks more than most of his classmates in every single Mathematics, Further Mathematics, and Physics exam only for JAMB to give him the same score as those classmates in JAMB Physics.
it was like JAMB giving you and Einstein the same score.

Those people have unfairly altered so many destinies.

GloriousGbola:
i would say oloyede's IT guys were not fortright with him
and if you are not deeply tech savvy, you will trust whatever your IT guru says
oloyede would not have any reason to believe there was a glitch in the system. and whoever failed to load the correct patches and thoroughly test before rolling out would simply have kept quiet and continued reassuring oloyede that the system was fine

oloyede also has blame sha in the sense that this is where ibimes number matter comes in. look at the numbers over the last four years and ask yourself why is there such a sharp deviation

[ i showed a guy working for me how to use a tool to automatically measure areas of lots of land in autocad. but you have to set a factor of 0.001 into the tool . this guy did not set the factor and was giving me plots of land with area of 100,000 sqm range. and reporting these areas. i was checking the drawing before sending and wondering what was happening because there was obviously an error somewhere.it was immediately obvious something was wrong ]

then again, using ibimes numbers this 300,000 may not make much statistical difference . the current failure is at 76%. assuming all these guys retake and pass, the failure will now be at 68 or 69%

summary, Jamb needs to get some sort of QA for their software and proper testing. whoever has been running their software has been operating without accountability. i said before, my son told me they had a 20 minute system outage in his center, it affected him and some other students. imagine sitting there waiting while others and entering their data, and when the system came back up they did not give them back the lost time.

based on the announcement this come back to
https://www.educare.school/



educare tech team are the ones who made the announcement

basically educare did a crowdstrike on jamb 2025

izzou:
[color=royalblue]Oloyede's tears no move me one bit

If JAMB had first announced the results, and stated that all the SE states and Lagos were to resit, it would have been noble.

Rather, they announced that 1.5 million were below 200. Even the 379k that is to resit, were given scores

Then after you saw that this error would soon be exposed, you eat onions and come and cry for us.

Nice acting sir...What's your TikTok handle?[/color]

The second change involved full-scale shuffling of both questions and answer options. This ensured that even two candidates sitting in the same session would not receive identical permutations, thereby enhancing test security.

The third change was a series of systemic improvements aimed at optimizing performance and reducing lag during exam sessions. This was a major policy change that saw the best and highest Obtained UTME score in 15 years. And this would have amounted to a great achievement by JAMB!

While these improvements were technologically sound in theory, a major operational flaw was uncovered during the implementation phase. The system patch necessary to support both shuffling and source-based validation had been fully deployed on the server cluster supporting the KAD (Kaduna) zone, but it was not applied to the LAG (Lagos) cluster, which services centres in Lagos and the South-East. This omission persisted across all sessions until the 17th session, after which the error was discovered and corrected.

afrodoc2:
Lol it did.

That was frustration not celebration.

afrodoc2:


That is why i gently asked you if everybody was clear about JAMB's marking scheme.

JAMB at the end is a Nigerian establishment. I am yet to see one i can place absolute trust in.

swiz123:
All I see here is Sowore, I am sure Ibime secretly agrees.

[b] I promised I will share a detailed technical report of what happened after our review with JAMB core system.

Carefully read it please…

JAMB 2025 UTME Technical Review Report

On Tuesday, the 14th of May 2025, a high-level technical review session was convened at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) headquarters in Abuja. The meeting, presided over by the esteemed Registrar, Professor Ishaq Olanrewaju Oloyede, was initiated in direct response to the mass outcry that followed the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results the previous Friday. The objective of this gathering was to unravel the root causes behind the unexpectedly poor candidate performance and to establish clear mitigative measures to restore confidence in the integrity of the UTME assessment process.

The meeting began promptly at 10:00 a.m. and was attended by a distinguished panel of stakeholders. Present were heads of key directorates within JAMB, and Lead Systems Analysts. Also in attendance were delegates from the CBT Centre Regulatory Committee, representatives from the Educare Technical Team, and lead engineers from the consortium of software vendors responsible for the examination engine infrastructure.

Discussions commenced with a comprehensive analysis of the existing system architecture. The panel reviewed the software stack powering the CBT engine, paying particular attention to how examination content was delivered to candidates. An important distinction was made between server-streamed and locally cached delivery methods.

The discussion further investigated the existence and efficacy of randomization mechanisms for both questions and answer options. This scrutiny was aimed at determining whether shuffling protocols were uniformly enforced, how answer permutations were managed, and if consistency of correct answer mapping was maintained across candidates following randomization.

Attention then shifted to the scoring and marking logic. This line of inquiry included assessing the capability of the system to reconstruct question-and-answer mappings and evaluate response accuracy with complete transparency. It was critical to determine if each candidate’s raw responses were stored, retrievable, and auditable.

The team also rigorously examined JAMB’s quality assurance and testing frameworks. This involved reviewing the load testing procedures previously employed, verifying the consistency of deployment builds across centres, and probing whether any last-minute hotfixes or patches were applied during or after the examination period. System logs, particularly incident and error records, were meticulously analyzed to identify any anomalies that could suggest failures in content delivery, timing accuracy, or candidate response capture.

Another focal point of the review was *the potential for human factor influence* . The panel sought clarity on whether any manual post-processing occurred during score collation or validation. The conversation concluded with an assessment of JAMB’s response readiness to Freedom of Information requests and its willingness to publish anonymized candidate-level result data as a measure to enhance public trust.

*One of the most critical discoveries* made during this session revolved around *three* major systemic changes introduced in the 2025 UTME. The first was a shift from the traditional *count-based analysis* to a more robust *source-based analysis* of results. In previous years, JAMB evaluated the integrity of examination sessions primarily by counting the number of responses submitted per session. If the majority of candidates in a session of 250 submitted a near-complete set of answers, the session was deemed valid. Any significant deviation led to disqualification of that centre’s results. However, in 2025, a more advanced model was adopted—one that focused on the actual source and logic of the answers provided, rather than just their quantity.

The second change involved *full-scale shuffling of both questions and answer options* . This ensured that even two candidates sitting in the same session would not receive identical permutations, thereby enhancing test security. The third change was *a series of systemic improvements aimed at optimizing performance and reducing lag* during exam sessions. This was a major policy change that saw the best and highest Obtained UTME score in 15 years. And this would have amounted to a great achievement by JAMB!

While these improvements were technologically sound in theory, a major operational flaw was uncovered during the implementation phase. The system patch necessary to support both shuffling and source-based validation had been fully deployed on the server cluster supporting the KAD (Kaduna) zone, but it was not applied to the LAG (Lagos) cluster, which services centres in Lagos and the South-East. This omission persisted across all sessions until the 17th session, after which the error was discovered and corrected.

As a result, approximately 92 centres in the South-East and 65 centres in Lagos—totalling 157 centres—operated using outdated server logic that could not appropriately handle the new answer submission/marking structure. This affected an estimated 379,997 candidates, whose results were severely impacted due to system mismatches during answer validation.

To verify the scale and accuracy of this issue, JAMB collaborated with the Educare Technical Team, which had gathered response data directly from over 18,000 candidates. After deduplication and filtering, about 15,000 authentic records were analyzed. Of these, more than 14,000 originated from the regions serviced by the unpatched LAG servers, confirming the technical review's findings. Comparative analyses between JAMB’s internal audits and third-party system evaluations revealed significant overlap, reinforcing the conclusion that the affected centres were indeed operating under impaired conditions.

In response to these findings, Professor Oloyede convened a press briefing at 3:00 p.m. on the same day. He formally acknowledged the oversight and issued a sincere apology to candidates and their families. He announced that all affected candidates would be given the opportunity to retake the examination at no additional cost. Furthermore, recognizing the potential scheduling conflict with ongoing SSCE examinations, JAMB had reached an agreement with the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) to ensure seamless coordination of timetables.

Affected candidates were advised to reprint their examination slips by Friday, 17th May 2025, to confirm their revised test schedules. JAMB also released an official communique titled *MAN PROPOSES, GOD DISPOSES*, within which as a Profound, emotional Section: *“Appeal, Appreciation, and Apology,”* which reiterated its commitment to fairness, transparency, and continuous improvement.

This review, conducted with thoroughness and transparency, signifies JAMB's resolve to uphold the sanctity of its examination processes. Going forward, stronger deployment validation protocols and real-time monitoring mechanisms will be implemented to prevent such oversights.
In summary, JAMB opened its systems to independent reviews to restore public confidence and ensure the reliability of the UTME for all stakeholders. And we hereby report, that this incident was neither a system failure nor administrative manipulation, but an outright human error.

~
Educare Tech Team,
As submitted by
Engr James Nnanyelugo[/b]

semid4lyfe:
If Prof. Ishaq Oloyede has any integrity left, he should just resign. Not this silly crocodile tears he’s shedding.

He"s done well as Registar and taken JAMB to its current height but I think t’s time for someone else to take over.

At this stage, what JAMB needs is fresh ideas and innovation. which I think a young, vibrant professor, maybe from a university like Covenant could bring. Wishful thinking I know......

Also, the once a year exam model doesn’t make sense. Students take WAEC and NECO in a year, which is effectively two opportunities to sort out their O’Levels , so why is JAMB, which is 1/3 of the admission process limited to once a year? That’s unfair and puts too much pressure on students.

JAMB needs a serious overhaul in leadership and its exam model to improve access to tertiary education for our teeming youths.

Ellexy:
The whole season has been nothing short of diabolical.

Ellexy:
I didn't watch the match but I saw the video, I don't even know what was going on in his mind there.

TemporaryHansel:
I'll harken to my leader's call and defect to APC tomorrow. Everything is according to the vision.

APC!!!!

Bayindir was celebrating West Ham's 2nd goal against Man United pic.twitter.com/odCE9PAieK

— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) May 13, 2025

swiz123:
Blueray was just defending incompetent jamb. Now look at the crazy numbers eligible to reseat.

izzou:
[color=royalblue] Nigeria?

See how the X handler even put it sef..

"Man proposes, God disposes"

[/color]

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I don't want to add any ethnic suspicion, but how did it get to the point that they had to cover it?

So how are we sure that hundreds of thousands have not been sidelined in the past?

Na wa[/color]

Theflint1:
The entire thing is a big dent on the reputation of the exam, they've been having these issues, just wasn't at this scale.

The proper thing is an investigation gets done, and the report of the investigation made public, anything short of that would be a shame.

Theflint1:
387,000 persons to resit the JAMB exams in 5 South East states and Lagos.

TemporaryHansel:
You and BlueRay vowed that nothing will happen irrespective of the pressure on jamb....

Ibime:
Like I said before the reason you no rate am is because his opposition to Jonathan dey pain you

He protest against PDP, he's APC. He protest against APC, he's a mole.

You want him to be partizan but he no send

Ibime:
Make Obi turn up for the protest let's see if they will bring out teargas. Dem no dey teargas big man. You dey blame Sowore for teargas which Naija Police have been using since the days of our great grandfathers.