Mock Exam Controversy: Adamawa Parents Blast JAMB Officials Over Poor Conduct
Parents of teenagers who took last Thursday’s 2025 mock Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams have characterized the organization’s leadership as a group of incompetent administrators.
According to Arewa PUNCH, the parents, who were visibly irate, made this declaration after the agency allegedly failed to examine on time.
“These JAMB people as a body, since my days of younger years, have always been and paraded a bunch of failed administrators,” remarked an irritated parent by the name of Musa Abubakar.
Among other irregularities, our reporter learned that the Mock JAMB exercise’s preparations were tainted by a number of lapses that were noticed.
Arewa PUNCH also convened to express their displeasure that the first group of students scheduled to begin the computer-based test at 7 a.m. failed to arrive at the various locations in most of the centers.
The various tests had not yet begun when our correspondent visited a few of the centers in Yola, the capital of Adamawa State, at around 1pm.
The JAMB office’s inadequate network caused the confusion, according to a CBT official who provided information to our correspondent at one of the centers under the condition of anonymity because he is not legally permitted to discuss the matter.
He stated, “There is nothing you can do when their network is bad because we work with the JAMB network.”
The test was administered six hours past the planned time, according to a parent whose daughter took it at the Modibbo Adama University center.
Since many of the batches that were due to take the exam today were unable to do so, he said, “The implications are that most of the students had to be rescheduled, and the expenses are now shifted to the parents.”
“The 7 am batch only finished the examination at 4 pm,” the parent claims.
According to our correspondent, a number of the parents who were present at the center made long faces while demanding that JAMB be removed as a requirement for admission to universities nationwide.
“What is the relevance of JAMB examining institutions that don’t have power over the number of students they can admit?” asked Abubakar, who revealed that he drove his son from a great distance for the exam.
DOWNLOAD EXAM SCHOLARS 2025 CBT APP ON PLAYSTORE
DOWNLOAD EXAM SCHOLARS 2025 CBT APP ON THE APPLE STORE
DOWNLOAD EXAM SCHOLARS 2025 CBT APP ON WINDOWS
VISIT EXAMSCHOLARS.COM for more info
