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toobby:
Two brothers invested a total sum of #5000 on a farm project.the farm yield ws sold for #15000 at the end of the season.if d profit ws shared in d ratio 2:3,whats d difference in d amount of profit received by d brothers

Profit made = 15000- 5000= 10,000 naira. It is this 10,000 that was shared in the ratio 2:3.

The first bro will receive 2/5 * 10000= 4000 naira.
The second bro will receive 3/5* 10000= 6000 naira.
Therefore the difference is 6000-4000= 2000 naira.

slimmy05:
The test has been rescheduled, you had better not make thesame silly mistake. Bloke

There was no mistake in the first point. How about you telling Sterling bank they had better put their portal in order? Moreover, I would rather sleep if I am less occupied than attempt to take a Sterling bank test even for fun again.

slimmy05:
Learn to take correction

Are you kidding me?What correction? Correction to a test I didn't do? It is you who failed to take correction by assuming erroneously that I took the test which I didn't do. Take correction that you couldn't even perform a mere task of reading well.

slimmy05:
Relax, don't get yourself worked up. Pay close attention next time and not just follow instruction, apply common sense.

Smh...you know what?Just have fun and say whatever pleases you.

slimmy05:
Keep exposing your crass ignorance. Simple instruction and your here ranting.

You the crass fellow here man, read this about 10 times into your thick skull ....I COULD NOT TAKE THE TEST.By the time you are done, I pray your brain deciphers that. If an adult like you cannot understand a simple wtiteup, we have to use nursery school pattern for you. Repeat the bolded again 20 times .

How can a person that didn't take a test fail it idiota?

slimmy05:
Exactly why you failed the test. You lack common sense

Your level of idiocy stinks so much.If you had common sense, you would have read that I couldn't even take the test. I never knew I have been chatting with an eediot all these while. Go back and read. Illiterate!

slimmy05:
If you have analytical and ability to pay attention to details you will understand the reason why you're meant to read through the questions. You are asked to read all the questions correctly before you attempt the question. The 17 question states, You are to answer only this question. and you skipped it? You lack common sense.

The only issue I find with the test is the poor network and inability to access the test. All those crap about instruction is shameful for a graduate like you.

You work and think like a robot, giving you an audience and trying to have a sensible discuss with you is an effort in futility, you lack manners and it isn't your fault, it is the fault of this faceless forum and that's why your mouth leaks anyhow.When you type, your brain is supposed to control your fingers but reverse is the case.My friend,just go sleep and please stop spamming my mentions and quoting me, you are constituting a nuisance.

Lastanza:
From d argument so far I think itz a highly technical process.I ve read through d comments and dis are my observations.
1. d op made a case as regards d 1st instruction if followed judiciously of not being able to go back to no.17 because u must get to no.20 b4 answering.
2. you ar nt surposed to answer no.17 on getting there because d instruction says read all before answering. No.20 could av said don't answer any question and dat is d final instruction
3.Dis is d bomb. Anoda said dat on gettn to no to no.17 u wil get a congratulatory message 4 keeping to instruction so dis is likely d intended and if not they ar contradictory.

I must say "thank you" for following up the argument logically but those that got the congratulatory message according to the inside source must have gotten the message after selecting an answer for no 17 not just on getting to no 17. If an answer is selected for no 17 without getting to no 20, then the main instruction which states that all questions must be read before selecting any answer has been violated and that itself implies not following instructions which means that there is a conflict in the instructions and candidates were left between the devil and the blue sea. The truth is ...Sterling bank tried to prove smart by giving out a trickish test (there is no crime in giving a trickish test, infact I like such) BUT the trickish test wasn't well planned with respect to conflicting instructions and they only ended up embarrasing themselves. If the so called test pattern and instructions is subjected to a thorough analysis, they will come out wrong.

chrisley024:
The truth is I'd have failed this test if I took it.

From my observation:

They expected candidates to read ALL questions before answering.

At no.17, you're to answer it(no.17) by virtue of 'obeying the last order'.

Putting a Back Button would have given those that realised their mistakes at no.17 the opportunity to return to previous questions and Uncheck their answers.

#MyObservation

That virtue of obeying the last order you mentioned is the scam and contradiction in the test instructions.

totem1:
Bros.. You failed by not reading and following the instructions (I admit that i would have failed too)... Learn your lesson and move on. What do you even mean by "ultimate instruction"..
Next time read between the lines and follow instructions.. I have seen cases like this, some of my lecturers did something similar in school. If question 17 says that you are to answer this question, then answer... you dont really hit it when you say that it would have been wrong to answer 17 as a result of the "ultimate instruction". Just learn and move on..

If the instruction says you should make sure you read all questions before answering any, were you supoosed to answer question 17 without reading all first? You guys won't cease to amaze me with your yeye logic, the bank goofed as the instructionswere contradictory and you are hee defending a misinformation. Goibg by your logic too, questions 1-16 requires that a candidate choses one answer from four options, so, we are expected to discard the main instruction and keep on answering abi Your defence is weak sir, try another one.

fotadmowmend:
I don't mean to offend anyone. But let us think about if applicants were to answer all the questions correctly don't you think that people will get someone else to attempt the questions for them as the test is unsupervised? I am of the opinion that that is a way of eliminating most of them and I don't think even the examiners knew that it will be as bad as this.

Yeah, there is a possibility of that happening and that is why companies usually organise a self supervised test after the one that was done remotely. UAC used the same method in the last recruitment they did.

fotadmowmend:
To me it isn't a scam. When you get to question 17 and you see d main instruction there, what else do u need than to answer it correctly and skip 18,19,20 and submit ??

Who told you questiin number 17 was the main instruction? Again, answer this.....what was the main instruction on the first page. If a candidate answers question 17 before moving to 18,19,20, has such candidate obeyed the main instruction on the first page??

GenerousLord:
And you forget the ULTIMATE instruction that says " you should read ALL questions before starting the test"?
Considering that instruction and considering the fact that "we are to pay attention to details", it would be wrong for someone to provide an answer for question number 17 (even though that question number states "This question is for you. You are to answer only this question" without reading through question number 18, 19 and 20 accordingly.
What if question number 18 was something like this, "You are not to answer question number 17. It was just a trick to test your attention to details skill"? Then probably, you had question number 20 as the right question for you to answer? Would you have said this same thing you are saying now? Of course you know that, if that was the case, then they would had as well said that those who answered question number 17 didn't pay attention to details because, they were told to read all questions before begining the test.

So as you can see, there is a big loophole there. And that's enough reason to question the recruitment process of Sterling bank.

Thank you so much bro.May God continue to bless your knowledge, you seem to be one of the few ones that understands my argument.

doxime:
well from the page that was posted up there,question 17 says" answer only this question".

So, which one do you obey? The main instruction on the first page or the one on question 17? Going by yoir argument, candidates are expected to discard the main instruction subsequently. Does that make sense to you? If candidates were supoosed to obey the main one, candidates are not expected to touch any question at all until after going through all the questions 1-20. Answering the question 17 itself implies not following instructions. If candidates are then expected to answer question 17 on getting there, then the instruction is contradictory.

slimmy05:
You lack basic comprehension skills. You typed lots of poos and I simply corrected your ignorance. The issue with the test is the poor network and inability to access the portal, not your over flogged instructions that you should be blaming your sorry self for. Take care

I think you read it with one eye closed cos if you had read it well, you would have seen that I addressed all the issues including the inability to log in and poor organisation. What is the essence of a test where at least 65% of eligible candidates couldn't access the test.In your hypocritical manner, you are very fast to dismiss the bank's incompetence with a wave of the hand but hammering on the instruction part which is highly debatable.

slimmy05:
common sense is not common. Keep blaming people for your idiocy.

Take it or leave it, I am not a JJC when it comes to aptitude tests and I have aced a couple of them and even give SHL tutorials. About 300 candidates were selected from a pool of over 100,000 in my current job and Sterling bank is the least of the banks I can ever work with. My first ever job was even in a bank where I resigned to go pursue a Msc degree. I only attempted to take the test in order to keep the brain fresh and I can say that, this is the most disorganised test I have ever taken. Even small coys like ICSL performs better in giving tests to candidates.

slimmy05:
don't mind the lazy overzealous guy. Always blaming others for their incompetence. The only issue with the test is poor network and inability to access the test

If you are not an ediot, you would have read where I said I didn't even take the test as I couldn't log in. Now, thousands were eligible to write a testa test and only few hundreds could write it and no provision was made for those that couldn't log in and they failed automatically, is that not a scam and lack of competence from Sterling bank? Isn't it ironic that an imcompetent company wants to test for competence?

slimmy05:
exactly where you lack common sense. If you had followed the instruction you would have arrived at the question asked to answer. Stop blaming people for your lack of incompetency and ability to follow simple instruction. If you read the question and gets to 17 why do you have to go back. Try somewhere else daft.

Okay fooool, according to the main instruction, were you supposed to answer question 17 without reading 18,19,20?

slimmy05:
You are a big liar not to have taken some blame for poor attention to details. You can click next without clicking any answer. You lack honesty and I see no reason you should be employed there.

The issue about the test wasn't the instruction but the poor network that made it difficult accessing the test.

Please , use your common sense to answer this question...There is a next button abi?and you were asked to read ALL the questions before answering any, so, when you read all the questions and get to no 20( according to the instruction) , how do you go back to 17 when there is NO BACK button?? Did you expect that the moment a candidate getsto no 17, such candidate should ignore the main instruction which itself translates to not following the instructions??

doxime:
Going through some of the response here,i am of the opinion that if this test is to conducted again,majority of the people that failed will still fail again.
you are given a simple instruction..READ ALL THE QUESTIONS BEFORE ANSWERING.
if you have followed that,by the time you get to 17,everything would have fallen into place and you would realize that 20mins was more than enough time to take the test.who knows if questions 18-20 has back button

Well, question 18 to 20 has no back button. So, what else do you have to say?

fotadmowmend:
Nice write up . But you are not entirely right ! Although the site was bad that day, it was very possible to skip a question without answering it. The only problem most of us faced during the exercise was anxiety. We were mindful of the time given while the main question lies in the instruction.

I can develop forms by simply using google forms to design that kind of test pattern. The essence of skipping a question is to be able to go back to it at a later time and when that can't be done, it means a question cannot be skipped(with respect to answering it...you either answer the question, or forget about the question). Now, since we were asked to read all questions first, when you get to no 20 and have read it, how do you go back to no 17 when there is no BACK button? Is that not a scam?

booqee:
May GOD bless you op. You've totally spoken my mind. I was so pissed off but well they fccking don't worth it! ama move on.

God will give you a job of your own.

Kassidy4luv:
The OP Lied.......................... Sterling bank stated it in the instructions, that we should read all the questions before answering.
The only problem with the test is just the issue of NETWORK.



The OP lied.................

So, if you read all the questions befire answering, how are you going to go back to question no 17 when there is no BACK button?Does that make any sense to you?

Imanuelle:
The OP lied in his statement.

Firstly, I was disappointed when he didn't mention the instruction that noted that candidates should read through all the questions before attempting any

...So what does "start test" mean when one was supoosed to read all before attempting any? Does that follow logically? The only deduction that could be made from that was that they meant read each question's instruction before answering and that was why I never took it as a basic info. If you want all candidates to read all questions before answering, then the start test option shouldn't be at the beginning.

Imanuelle:
Secondly. The 'next' button was visible, and skipping was possible.

What's the essence of a skip button without a PREVIOUS one? That means the next button is non functional as you can never go back to a skipped question.







Now, based on the remainder of your argument, the main instruction said read all questions before answering any and that means a candidate should get to the last question ( 20) before attempting any at all, so why should a candidate answer no 17 withouth going through all if the said instruction is to be followed?? That is very contradictory and clearly shows that the whole process is a scam .






Moreover, let us even consider the statement "ANSWER ONLY THIS QUESTION CORRECTLY". Logically, what this means is that you can answer all other questions but make sure that they have wrong answers and only this question no 17 should have a correct answer. There is a difference between"ANSWER ONLY QUESTION NO 17 CORRECTLY" and "ANSWER ONLY QUESTION NO 17". The latter would have even made a better sense. No matter which way you want to look at it, it was a big scam.

CHM11:
Audit and conversion of contract staffs to permanent staffs.

SMH.

LEvuls:
I get your point and I have been following the thread only if you have been observant you will see criticizing the firm, there's no strong genuity about the job openings

Exactly. I don't know why they decided to waste people's time.

LEvuls:
Sorry Bro



are you from mars





you should have seen it coming from onset





I feel ya pain





Try on move Bro

Not that bro. I have a job, just did it to stay fresh with respect to test formats but I couldn't take the lies that was told by the company and the way graduates were insulted on this forum for not following instructions.

Over the week, I read with utter dismay, the lies that was propagated by Sterling bank Plc and the insults that was traded on the average Nigerian graduate that participated in the screening test that took place on saturday,19th April 2014 on this forum and I felt so bad because the reports had no iota of truth and credibility in it. I should have replied during the week but my job wouldn't allow me hence the reason for the slight delay.



Prior to the test, there had been an earlier one in which candidates were given some question that had subjective answers and those that were said to have passed the test with a minimum score of 80% were later informed about this new one that took place last week. The first test itself was marred by lack of organisation and the difficulty of logging into the sterling bank portal but candidates managed to pull through and do the test.



Based on the problems earlier encountered in the first test, everyone thought that Sterling bank would have corrected the mistakes and take appropriate actions but reverse was the case. The second test was worse as most candidates couldn't log in at all talkless of taking the test. I was one of the candidates that couldn't log in despite the fact that I used three different types of modems and two laptops. When I couldn't log in after multiple trials, I rushed to a cyber cafe close to my house to try that out. Expectedly, I met about ten persons there that were trying to access the portal and everyone had the same complaint. It was obvious the website could only take few persons at a time considering the thousands of youths that were billed for the test which must be taken within two hours. After a while, about two to three persons were able to log in but couldn't access any of the questions except for the instruction page and we all read the instruction page well. On the instruction page, there were three basic information on it; The first one was that candidates should read each question very well and follow the instructions, the second one was that success would be based on the performance in that test and the third one was that, credentials and information earlier submitted will be part of the screening as well and that was all.



While we were all still trying to log in, a person got lucky amongst us and question number 1 came. Please, follow this writeup very well and try and digest its contents. As I was saying, question no 1 came and there was no particular instruction on it except for a mathematical question in which 4 options were given. Now, the way the test form was designed, a question can only appear on a page at a time and it is impossible to move to the next question without selecting an answer in the current one and clicking on a next button. From question no 1 to question no 16, there was no instruction in them except for questions and options. It also takes at least 2 minutes for the next question to come after clicking on the next button.



On getting to question 17, there was an instruction before the question and the instruction reads....ANSWER ONLY THIS QUESTION CORRECTLY. What does this statement mean? It cannot mean that question no 17 is the only question the candidates were expected to answer because, if you do not click on an answer in a question, the next question won't come up and it will be impossible to get to question no 17 itself. Logically, the only thing it could have meant was that, answer all other questions wrongly but make sure that the answer to question no 17 is correct. If this is the case, then the instruction should be on the first page before the questions but it was not there. If it were there, that means candidates should skip all questions before no 17 and then answer no 17 correctly, skip 18,skip 19, skip 20 and then submit but remember the way the form was designed .....no question can be skipped which leaves a candidate with the only option of solving each question, getting an answer and then deliberately chose wrong answers except for no 17 but mind you, THAT INSTRUCTION FOR QUESTION NO 17 WAS NEVER IN THE FIRST PAGE, IT ONLY APPEARED ON QUESTION NO 17 ITSELF. Question no 17 actually asked for the name of the MD of Sterling bank.


When candidates submitted, they were told they failed because they refused to follow instructions which said ONLY QUESTION NO 17 SHOULD BE ANSWERED CORRECTLY and which was not possible based on my earlier points.


I have done a lot of aptitude tests by Dragnet, Workforce etc which I have a 70% pass rate and I have seen companies do magomago in their recruitment processes , the worst they have done is not to call one back even after spanking the difficult aptitude tests and all and then one wouldn't hear from them again until some persons resume through the back door but this Sterling bank own is the worst I have ever come across, it was so dubious and filled with lies and Nigerian youths were taken for granted and meant to look like fools and those that didn't even know anything about the process were so judgmental and ridiculed those that wrote the test on this forum for not following instructions and that is why I had to come up with this write up to clear the air.


Finally, it is so sad that in this country, companies treat graduates with so much disdain and lack of respect all because of job scarcity. The Nigerian labour law is non functional and that is why job evils stand and this daylight robbery by Sterling bank is about to stand too, no one to fight for our youths. We would be fighting a losing battle if the management of Sterling bank is sued . Since those that would get the job is already known, why waste people's time? Why lie against them? Why conduct a dubious process? To the unemployed youths out there, may God give you a good job that is devoid of magomago and lie lie like that of Sterling bank. ( AMEN)

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yemmyharlee:
N.B: I have always wonder why he is bearing Rotimi. Any explanation for that because I think Rotimi is a Yoruba name

Let me help you out. You see, Rotimi Ameachi's father is a great admirer of the late Chief Frederick ROTIMI Alade Williams who became the first Senior Advocate of Nigerian SAN.So, when he gave birth to Ameachi, he named him after that great lawyer and that explains the name " Rotimi". The lawyer died in 2005 at the age of 84.

PrinceMario:
Sincerely, you're entitled to your opinion just don't be clueless when expressing it. Elect guys are good, we offer a lot of courses together but you cant just help it seeing chemical guys taking the lead in the faculty of tech. scores like 95A,90A,88A are always from chemical engineering nerd, even their EEE courses we offer at their department has severally been lead by chemical guys. About sir Jarus, unless you've been blinded by bitterness, not to reckon with the fact the he is one of the most(if not the most) renowned career/academic personnel we have on nairaland so his ratings cant be debunked.

In your school, chemical engineering guys might be better but generally, EE guys and mech engine still carry the day and as you can see, the research still placed EE and mech above chem.engine. I think you shouldn't really bother yourself, at least chemical engineering is on the list. Computer science still requires a higher IQ than all those ones cos if you do not have a very IQ, you can't be one.


Talking about your mentor, he wasn't and isn't a science person. He did Accounting and there is a wide gap between that and the subject matter we are talking about, he only has a faint idea cos he works in an oil firm and sees a lot of chem engineering grads. So, he isn't in a good position to say what and what is not when such subject matters are being discussed.



Moreover, you spanking 90A bla bla bla does not necessarily make one a genius or have a high IQ. In the science field, I doubt if there is any subject matter that requires a higher IQ than programming/ computer science.

PrinceMario:
Lies....medicine requires hardwork and perseverance, you don't necessarily need to be a genius. The engineering course with the highest rate of diverse genius is chemical engineering. Jarus always say it. you can take a tour to OAU chemical engineering department to confirm. 95% 0f my classmates are demi-Einstein so also are my senior colleague.

So, Jarus is your own yardstick for saying who and who isn't a genius. Infact,electrical/ electronics engineering students are generally better than chemical engineering students. I would even still pick mechanical engineering before chemical engineering students anyday based on my observations.