JAMB 2016: Nigerian Scholars Express Their Feelings

The following are a few of  the numerous comments and opinions that a number of scholars have shared with us with regards to the 2016 JAMB Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). It is our hope that JAMB will do something to make the CBT system better.

I wish to state categorically that children who have been straight As students from Jss1 to SS3 , who made distinction in all Cambridge subjects, cannot have less than 300 in Jamb!
Jamb pls come to the aid of our children. They are our future! The future of Nigeria!
Pls let’s help and encourage our children to stay back and study here.
A lot of them get offered scholarship to study abroad because of their distinct and outstanding results!
What is happening to us in Nigeria?
Why would adults who had it better in their time make life difficult and unbearable for the young ones?
What happened to the position of geniuses?
There used to be appreciation for excellence!
Why do we now encourage mediocrity and easy way out!
Addition of 40 marks across board is indication that there was error and totally unacceptable!
The children’s exams should be recalled online, details of questions with corresponding answers checked and proper and fair marking done!
Then and only then can we move forward in this Nation!
JAMB JAMB JAMB! PLEASE WE PLEAD!!! – Danielle

I hav read my books like isaac newton and i know dat d score jamb sent to me which is 159 and lata dey aded 40 marks whhich made it 199 cannot b possible plsss i beg jamb to reschedule anoda date for dos dat wrote on sat and monday bcos i feel very disapointed.afta all my hardwork and efforts how could jamb giv me dis kind of score?plsss jamb shud do somtin abt it…plsss if jamb can call me to rewrite d exam again i am willing to prove it.i tink d problem came from d computer..or somtin els..plsss jamb help us..i want to study pharmacy and d score is not enof for my course.plsss look into d mata.thank u – Gracy

I think Jamb authorities should have the decency and enough integrity to admit their error and reschedule exams for all those who wrote on 27th and 29th.
Please do not toy with the destinies of these children so that posterity can smile on them as regards their own children too!  – Danielle

Plz jamb if u want to do pple favour. Don’t b centimental…u added marks for odas.my computer logged me out 5 times…I didn’t finish…u added for oda pple u didn’t add to some pple.it not fair…I called jamb customer care all of dem switched off… – Daniel

i wrote my exam on Wednesday the painful thing was that the portal submitted itself when am still having 1hr 27min well i know i have a father in heaven sha i answered only math and English completely on physics i only did 5questions while i did 20 in chemistry.my aggregate was 169 – Stephen

With gr8t bitternss in my heart, I took my jamb on 2nd and i encountered so many system error’s on my system to extent i couldn’t finsh up wit my maths & chemstry all of a sudden de system timed out before my time. My score was 157 and de additional 40marks wasnt added to me…pls help – Chisom

We also wish to congratulate the scholars who performed well in their UTME this year. Here are a few who shared their testimonies:

A big shout-out to Nigeriascholars for this great effort. I remembered some few  days to my exam day having studied so hard and done with my revision, i spent  some wonderful times here meticulously looking at those option before picking  answers taking into cognizance the new software jamb introduced. Here i am today, i made it! — Ola

U guys are cool . U really helped a lot , I wrote my jamb examination on Friday  & it was easy. I got 236. Thanks again I really appreciate — Precious

i thank God for passing my utme and a big thank you to nigerian scholars as  this helped me so once again thank you — Adedeji

Recommended for those that are yet to write their exams:

Find Out What You Might Score In Your UTME In Just 3 Minutes

JAMB CBT Practice Tests For All Courses & Subject Combinations