Parents of students who sat for the 2025 mock Joint Admission and Matriculation Board examinations last Thursday have described the authority of the body as a bunch of failed administrators.
Arewa PUNCH reports that the obviously angry parents made this statement following what they called the failure of the agency to conduct the examination as scheduled.
An obviously vexed parent who identified himself as Musa Abubakar simply blurted out: “This JAMB people as a body since my days of younger years has always been and paraded a bunch of failed administrators.”
Our correspondent gathered that arrangements for the Mock JAMB exercise were marred by several observed lapses, among other inconsistencies.
They further gathered for insatnce that the first batch of students that were to start the Computer Based Test by 7am did not make it to the various venues in the majority of the centres.
When our correspondent visited some of the centres in Yola, the Adamawa State capital at about 1pm, the different examinations were yet to start.
A CBT official who volunteered information to our correspondent at one of the centres but on condition of anonymity because he is not officially authorised to speak on the issue, said that the mix-up was due to the poor network from the JAMB office.
”We work with the JAMB network, and when their network is bad, there is nothing you can do,” he said.
A parent whose daughter sat for the examination at the Modibbo Adama University centre disclosed that the examination took place six hours after the scheduled time.
“The implications is that most of the students had to be rescheduled because the number of batches that were supposed to sit for the examination today could not sit for the examination and the expenses are now shifted to the parents,” he said.
According to the parent, “the 7am batch only finished the examination at 4pm.”
Our correspondent reports that several of the parents encountered at the centre wore long faces as they called for cancellation of JAMB as a criteria for admission into tertiary institutions across the country.
Abubakar who disclosed that he drove down his son from a far distance for the examination, further queried, “What is the relevant of JAMB conducting examination for institutions that don’t have power on the number of students they can admit?”