Another candidate, Andrew Bassey, said that he was traumatised after seeing his result on Saturday because he not only had difficulty registering for the examination but also got a low score after all the troubles.xBassey said that his score would not avail him the opportunity to apply for his dream course in his dream school and he couldn’t imagine going over the process of the examinations next year.Mr Badmus Owolabi, a parent, said that it was important for the examination body to address the situation while noting that most of the results were unfavourable for the candidates.He said: “I have been following up on this JAMB thing because I have two candidates from my house and it is no coincidence that both of them had low marks.“I assure you, they are both intellectually sound. It is not possible that with all the extra lessons they participated in, of which I personally supervised, they came out with such low points.“As far as I’m concerned, this is just what JAMB chose to give them.”
Owolabi also urged the board to consider both parents and candidates’ plight in its process of examination while adding that the entire process this year was too tedious.xAnother parent, Mrs Grace Moses, said that the results did not reflect the true performance of the candidates.
According to her, the board should at least review the results already released as candidates had already experienced too much hitches throughout this year’s process.“From the registration to the point of checking, the results have been full of hitches.“The best they can do is to ensure most candidates score highly and also gain admission. Enough of the stress,” Moses said.However, another candidate, Millicent Andrew said that she scored an average of 187 and was happy because she was sure to make the cut-off mark when decided by the board.NFM reports that over 1.3 million candidates registered for the examination which began on June 19, to end on July 3 in over 700 accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) centres nationwide.NFM also reports that the board said that more results were expected to be released in subsequent days.