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JAMB Advised to Give UTME Results 5-Year Validity Duration  

JAMB Advised to Give UTME Results 5-Year Validity Duration  

Why do students have to take the UTME (the mandatory entrance exam to get into Nigerian higher ed institutions) every single year even when they have no need to?

US-based Nigerian academic, Professor Farooq Kperogi asked the question in a Facebook posting on Monday.

According to him, “The SAT, America’s rough equivalent of Nigeria’s UTME, has a 5-year validity period.

“That means if, for any number of reasons, you’re not able to get into a university in a particular year, you can submit scores from any test taken within 5 years.

“Requiring students to take the UTME every year seems to me needlessly exploitative.

“I know a student who had great UTME scores from last year but had no success getting a place at the university of his choice even though he had more than the minimum entry requirements. He retook it this year and fell short of the minimum cutoff by a wide margin.

“If he were in the US, he would have submitted his scores from last year.”

He said he wished will give the suggestion the JAMB registrar.

“Several credible people have told me that the current JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, is an exceptionally honest, smart, and innovative man who is receptive to fresh ideas. I hope someone can whisper this suggestion to him.

“JAMB can organize UTME several times in a year, not just once, but should allow test scores to have at least a two-year and at most a five-year validity period.”

 

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Faruk Khalil
Faruk Khalilhttps://nigeriansketch.com/
Khalil Faruk (Deputy Editor-in-Chief), has a Bachelors and Master's degree in Political Science and has worked as a reporter, features editor and Deputy Editor-in-Chief respectively in a leading Nigerian daily. He has undergone trainings in journalism, photo journalism and online journalism within and outside Nigeria.

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