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5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Ballack1(m): 8:19am On Oct 26, 2017
5 departments in OAU where bagging first class degree is almost impossible



OAU is one of the Universities that rarely produce first class students and the reason for this is best known to the lecturers.



Obafemi Awolowo University is a 'great' institution that has over the years developed a culture of glorifying students' failure.

OAU is one of the Universities that rarely produce first class students and the reason for this is best known to the lecturers.

Some lecturers in Nigerian Universities like to form bad guys with their students and they do that with first-class arrogance. A lot of students have had encounters with lecturers telling them they will not graduate, the lenient one would promise you a poor very grade irrespective of your performance in the test.

Lecturers like these according to the students abound in OAU and they wear their principle glorifying failure like a badge of honour.



Graduating with first-class from Obafemi Awolowo University is one of the most difficult things to achieve in Nigeria.

It is almost impossible because some departments in the University have developed a culture of not producing first class graduates.

While other departments produce graduates year in year out, these departments have proved that first class award is not a for everyone in their domain, not even for the most brilliant students.

Recently, Aarinola Olaiya broke a 28-year-old record in the University as she emerged the first student of Surgery to graduate with distinction in 28 years.



This prompted a conversation based on the conclusion of a Twitter Nigeria influencer that lecturers in a faculty or department that does not produce a first-class student in five years should be fired.

A lot of people reacted to this tweet and called out the department in OAU where it is difficult to make first class.

So, if you are considering admission into these departments, you have to prepare yourself for the culture. The culture of glorifying failure in OAU.

1. English

The OAU English department has not produced any first class student in more than three decades. According to a student of the department, the last distinction graduate of the department is now an old senior lecturer in the department. And ever since, no student has been dimmed brilliant enough to merit the award.

2. Geology:

If making first class in the study of the earth and its structure was a passport to heaven, no student studying Geology in OAU would make heaven.

It is that certain. So certain that the lecturers usually prepare the minds of the students that they can not get first class no matter how brilliant they are. Geology is one of the most dreaded departments in this university and for decades, no student has been celebrated in the department.

3. Surgery:

In Surgery department, it is a good news that no student has been able to make first class for the past 28 years. This seems to be a department where making first class is seriously frowned at.

Unfortunately, for the department, a  student of the department, Aarinola Olaniyan recently broke the jinx and her fellow students could not but celebrate her victory over the department.

4. Political Science:

This department has also failed to produce any first class graduate in so many years. This culture has even made some students to give up on chasing first class because first class has not happened to any student in the past and is not likely to happen in future.

5. Chemistry:

According to a graduate of this department, graduating with distinction in Chemistry is not as terrible as it is in Geology but it is rare to come across a first-class student in the department.

It takes like three to four years to see a first class graduate in this department, it is a serious issue but not as serious as the case in Geology and medical faculty.

However, this is not to say Nigerian Universities should distribute first class award to every Tom Dick and Harry, nevertheless, the students deserve to be rewarded appropriately for their efforts rather than victimizing them because the department or faculty wants to maintain a record of no first class.


https://amp.pulse.ng/communities/student/5-oau-dept-where-it-is-almost-impossible-to-make-first-class-id7509037.html

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by hazan041(m): 9:34am On Oct 26, 2017
FTC is not hard as I thought

Just as what the op means is impossible that's how its not possible to see your self online on nairaland
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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nobody: 11:31am On Oct 26, 2017
Yep
Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Olufemiolaolu(m): 11:38am On Oct 26, 2017
OAU political science dept is HELLISH.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Ballack1(m): 11:51am On Oct 26, 2017
[quote author=Olufemiolaolu post=61785738] OAU political science dept is HELLIS.
when you have people like Sat Obiyan, Afro, Awofeso what do you expect.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by modextus(m): 12:00pm On Oct 26, 2017
Just when i was thinking first class in political science was only impossible in my school.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by micwills007: 12:00pm On Oct 26, 2017
Op bravo for the eye opening write up but they are also some department especially in local government studies(faculty of administration) which their lecturers are dreadful than a devil. wait o! what does it profit a lecturer to see his/her student degraded.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by lilbazy(m): 12:04pm On Oct 26, 2017
In Nigeria your degree doesn't really matter.... A friend of mine graduated with 3rd class in Agriculture and he is currently working with UBA in Ilorin!!! Making 1st class isn't a gateway to Success.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nobody: 12:04pm On Oct 26, 2017
that dosent make the university great

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by KendrickAyomide: 1:26pm On Oct 26, 2017
Why Africa especially Nigeria will always be backward.. if a student merits it, why not give him or her This country is cursed with corruption and evil !!!

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nobody: 1:48pm On Oct 26, 2017
I like what the OP said "they glorify failure". What is so remarkable in political science that they are finding it hard to produce first class or distinction? Nonsense sadists.
That an OAU produces 2% first class would never make it better than an Imperial college with 44% first class.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nobody: 1:56pm On Oct 26, 2017
lilbazy:
In Nigeria your degree doesn't really matter.... A friend of mine graduated with 3rd class in Agriculture and he is currently working with UBA in Ilorin!!! Making 1st class isn't a gateway to Success.
I smell connection tinz

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Noble4life(m): 2:13pm On Oct 26, 2017
Olufemiolaolu:
OAU political science dept is HELLISH.
My brother, all the lecturers in that department will not make heaven. I do not see any big deal in that course but the idiots kept dishing F's as if we no dey read or pay sch fees. I just no wan mention names, that sch is... I reserve my comment.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by maleekfrenzy(m): 3:33pm On Oct 26, 2017
I can still remember when I was doing PD.. proF Akande was the last person that had first class in that Eng department...He said it himself...There is also this guy that taught me in one tutorial like that. Apex tutors in Ife..He said he would have finished with 1st class but they gave him an E in a course that he should have had 90 A just to make sure he doesn't finish with a 1st class. same English department. Those Lecturers re saddist.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nddytex08(m): 3:47pm On Oct 26, 2017
modextus:
Just when i was thinking first class in political science was only impossible in my school.
I studied Pol Science as well. Which of the school bro?
Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by chukzyfcbb: 4:18pm On Oct 26, 2017
Getting a first class in the department of geological sciences is no small feat.

It deals with lots of imaginations and thoughts of things the average human mind can't conjure

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by PrimadonnaO(f): 4:30pm On Oct 26, 2017
English department is like that in most federal universities.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Jaytecq(m): 4:39pm On Oct 26, 2017
almost....?

In Lautech First Class is Impossible in some Department

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by adeniyi55: 4:40pm On Oct 26, 2017
cool
Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Humility017(m): 4:41pm On Oct 26, 2017
modextus:
Just when i was thinking first class in political science was only impossible in my school.
in my set 2013 uniben....4 of my classmates bagged first class...with 39 second class upper division...coupled wit the fact...that it is not just political science....but combined.

political science and public administration

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by mercyway: 4:41pm On Oct 26, 2017
Nonsense first class
Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by brunofarad(m): 4:41pm On Oct 26, 2017
That's how in our set in physics dept

The lecturers were claiming james bond until our set gave them 4 solid first class guys


Their eye clear


Me jeje carry my 2.1 waka , I no need stress


Sadists

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Sirheny007(m): 4:41pm On Oct 26, 2017
It is simple. If you want first class, study abroad.
Our brothers there are fetching it with buckets.
angry

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Kingluqman89(m): 4:41pm On Oct 26, 2017
Great Ife...
Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nobody: 4:44pm On Oct 26, 2017
OP, go to the department of Political Science UNIZIK and see what's up.

Egbo, Obianyo, and the cunning FrankCollins, all of you are mad.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by shaddoww: 4:44pm On Oct 26, 2017
Funny thing be say the ones wey even graduate 2-1 for d geology no dey really get job. So I no chum understand why dem no dey make dem get first class.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Nobody: 4:46pm On Oct 26, 2017
Hmmmn! And OP is stressing it as if they don't produce first class graduate in OAU or their own first class graduates are lesser to some other Universities in Nigeria. Is it not thesame school that produces over 100 first class graduates in the year 2014.

https://www.nairaland.com/2037206/oau-graduates-127-first-class

So many schools in Nigeria are with few departments that never produce first class since inception. No point making it looks like OAU is different or what is happening in OAU doesn't exist in other schools.

It's a verifiable fact that Geology and Political science Departments in Nigerian Universities hardly produce first class graduate and not peculiar to OAU alone.

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Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by datola: 4:47pm On Oct 26, 2017
Great Ife!
Re: 5 Departments In OAU Where Bagging First Class Degree Is Almost Impossible by Odianose13(m): 4:47pm On Oct 26, 2017
lilbazy:
In Nigeria your degree doesn't really matter.... A friend of mine graduated with 3rd class in Agriculture and he is currently working with UBA in Ilorin!!! Making 1st class isn't a gateway to Success.

But it's good if you make the first class. It gives you more opportunities as an employee tho.

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