OAU Geology where the professor would tell you - "look right, look left, only one of you will graduate" For 2 straight years nobody graduated. On convocation HOD grab mic saying "my students have refused to graduate l"

Surgery as a Department in any Nigerian University does not graduate students with honours in Surgery. It is just one of the numerous departments (about 20) under which medical students passes before graduating as medical doctors.

What you might have talked about is getting a DISTINCTION in Surgery. And this is difficult for ALL the subjects offered in medical school.

English Language is a subjective field. That can be understood. First from subjective disciplines are less than those from numerical disciplines.

It's that of chemistry which I'm surprised. But then, what do I know?

BTW, OP, It's deemed not "dimmed". Maybe that's why there has been no first in over two decades.

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.

No one said it's, but please don't denigrate the achievement. It takes dedication, determination and perseverance to make such.

To have distinction in Ibadan Medical School you have to score 80%.That is the reason why you will hardly hear the news of people having multiple distinctions in Ibadan Medical School like other Medical Schools.

To me,it doesn't make sense.In 2013 a female student had 74% in surgery in Ibadan Medical School and they still denied her distinction! and someone from other school with the same score and with distinction tag will be forming effiko than her.

maleekfrenzy:
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.

The guy studied English Education. His nickname is GP. He tot me when I was in 100level he was in 400level.

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Well, I can attest to this cos I'm a graduate of English language from the school. I lost the zeal and love I had for the course after the incessant frustration encountered in the course of studying the course.

[quote author=lilbazy post=61786400]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.


Exactly bro, A good friend of mine graduated with a 3rd class in marketing and she is currently a manager in airtel. She changes jobs like pairs of shoes.

bahaushe1:
Surgery as a Department in any Nigerian University does not graduate students with honours in Surgery. It is just one of the numerous departments (about 20) under which medical students passes before graduating as medical doctors.

What you might have talked about is getting a DISTINCTION in Surgery. And this is difficult for ALL the subjects offered in medical school.

I am even interested in the real score of the Arinola Girl.If Its just 70s,then she is not a distinction candidate in Ibadan Medical School.To have a distinction in Ibadan Medical School you have to score 80% or above.

To get first class in English you think say na beans?

Ballack1:
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.


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You are VERY wrong with the Chemistry department. They have 1st class graduate almost every year.

There is only one reason that this can happen, THE LECTURERS DON NOT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING. In sane climates they should be sacked.

philkay:





The guy studied English Education. His nickname is GP. He tot me when I was in 100level he was in 400level.

you are very correct. GP.

Do you knw what he did to get that job.

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.

Geology in UNIOSUN sef is hell....

Some lecturers are just born saddist, they derive pleasure I'm students suffering.

McBeal10:

I smell connection tinz

Definitely not a GLO connection

There's nothing like surgery department in the real sense like that

maleekfrenzy:
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.

that guy at apex tutors is that not Mr PAUL that wrote compass and that Akande nah real saddist
I prefer Faleye Ademilokun

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I take it you studied Pol Sci

modextus:
Just when i was thinking first class in political science was only impossible in my school.

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OP.. Geology produced a 1st about 12 years ago.

Bagging first class in economics in my school is almost impossible, these lecturers are out to make sure you don't get it.

Getting 2_1 sef involves a lot of struggle, only God will judge Nigerian Lecturers.

First Class in Surgery? Ayamnotundastandin

Big lie!!!!!

You can make first class if you study hard.

7Alexander:
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.

faculty of social sciences (except mass comm) lecturers re wicked to the marrow,my cousin got a 2.1 in economics opted for 2nd degree and got a first class in ACC.remember when a psychology lecturer once told us only he and God could get A in the course see as people pack E's ehn. for mumu social psychology oh!!

#team geology ....

MaritzaNL:
Bagging first class in economics in my school is almost impossible, these lecturers are out to make sure you don't get it.

Getting 2_1 sef involves a lot of struggle, only God will judge Nigerian Lecturers.

Wow!!!please wetin be d school name?

Hello OP , please check the records well Dele Monday graduated with a first class degree from the department of political science OAU Ife in 1999/2000 academic year . Though it's been more than 17 years now .

Geology is almost everywhere not just OAU

it's now a recognisable fact that the grade you come out with, is not a measurement of your rate of success in life, let them keep hoarding the first class "who go better go better". strive to be an employer rather than an employee

franktolk:
Hello OP , please check the records well Dele Monday graduated with a first class degree from the department of political science OAU Ife in 1999/2000 academic year . Though it's been more than 17 years now .

17 years ago?... Is that a good thing?..that is terrible