Nigerians on social media have knocked the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for scheduling examinations for candidates for as early as 7 a.m.
Candidates seeking admission to Nigerian tertiary
institutions sit in the JAMB-administered Unified Tertiary Matriculation
Examination (UTME).
JAMB has also scheduled some sessions for 7 a.m., raising
concerns, especially for candidates whose examination venues are not close to
their residences.
Most examination centres take candidates in three batches: 7
a.m., 10 a.m. and 12 p.m.
PREMIUM TIMES on Saturday spoke to a candidate who travelled
over 50 kilometres from Gwagwalada to sit the Computer-based examination at the
Tudun Wada CBT Hub, Government Secondary School (GSS), Zone 4 in Abuja.
But Nigerians on social media express worry that candidates
from far distances may miss the exams by 7 a.m.
They called on the examination body to look into
rescheduling the morning examination.
Condemnation
An X user, @Ogunsbaba_85038, wrote: “This 7 am exam is
insensitive, security wise, and distance factor, at least exam can start by 9
am.”
Another user, @ShegsGraphics12, raised the alarm that some
candidates who were scheduled to take the examination by 7 a.m. and came late
weren’t allowed to take the exams at the Wisdom House CBT centre at Ogba,
Lagos.
“@JAMBHQ, please look into some of the candidates that
couldn’t write their exams due to several circumstances,” the user posted.
JAMB had asked candidates to be at their examination venue
before their time of examination, stressing in one of its posts that “any
candidate that is late to the examination centre is considered absent.”
More than 1.9 million candidates are scheduled to take the
examination between Friday, 19, and Monday, 29 April.
But JAMB Spokesperson Fabian Benjamin told PREMIUM TIMES on
Sunday that the examination doesn’t start at precisely 7 a.m.
He said the 7 a.m. allowed candidates to settle down and familiarise themselves with the CBT centres before the examination.
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