The Nigeria exam recognizes “Glitch” against the background of low speeding speed

The body that manages the University-Entrance exams in Nigeria has admitted to a “technical problem” that compromised some results from this year’s tests after nearly 80% of students received low grades.

Students complain that they cannot enter computers, questions that do not show and reduce power, which makes it impossible to take the exams.

The low speed of passing has caused widespread indignation, especially since a candidate took its life.

Faith Opesusi Timileyin, 19, who seeks to study microbiology at the university, died after the swallowing of poison, her family said.

Her father and her bigger sister told the BBC that she had passed the exam for the second time and received 146 marks of 400, a lower than 193, which she had last year.

“The pain made her take her life,” her father Olwaphemi said to BBC Pidgin.

Overall, 200 or more than 400 is sufficient to get a place at the University in the exams managed by the Joint Admission and Maturity Council (JAMB).

Only 400,000 of 1.9 million students have achieved this brand, one of the oldest performances in recent years.

A student, Favor eke, told the BBC IGBO that 10 out of 165 questions did not appear on the screen – all he could see were the options for multiple choice for answers.

“We were told to miss the empty questions and continue the exam, but it was very difficult to concentrate afterwards,” she said.

She also had technical problems, receiving her results, which means she was very unlikely to enter the university this year – the third time she took the exams.

She sat on the test in the capital, Abuzha, who is not one of the centers where students can return the exams, leaving it completely distracted.

Another student said he had problems entering the computer before any other profile appeared mysteriously on the screen, showing various questions and then the machine briefly turned off completely.

“I could not answer all the questions when we were told that our time had grown, because much of my time was wasted because of these technical difficulties,” he said.

The examination organ apologized for the “painful damage” and the “trauma it subjected to the affected Nigerians.”

At a press conference, JAMB’s registrar Ishak Oloide fell into tears until he apologized.

He has announced that nearly 380,000 candidates in 157 centers affected out of 887 will be able to return the exams from Saturday.

The zones that are most affected are Lagos and several states to the southeast.

JAMB has accused the failure of the computer system to upload answers to the applicants’ exams in these areas during the first days of the exams.

It states that “an unusual level of public problems and strong complaints” prompted us to do an immediate audit or review. “This would usually happen in June, the statement said.

The national exam, known as a unified examination for tertiary maturity (UTME), is a computer -based test that is a requirement for those who join universities and other higher institutions.

The 2025 test, which took place in March, was darkened by interruptions due to interruptions of power supply in some areas.

The head of the examination body earlier this week defended the bad results, stating that they reflect the “true academic abilities” of the students and were due to the compression of fraud.

Many Nigerians on social media call for accountability, some seeking Oloide’s resignation.

Opposition figure Peter Obi said that while taking guilt was commendable, the question raised “a lot about problems of problems and grave” in critical institutions.

Right activist Rino Oduala said it was “incompetence. This is an educational sabotage. He must be arrested immediately.”

Additional reporting from Chukwunaeme