Education
“This Country Is Awful,” JAMB Candidate Who Scored 326 Laments Rescheduled Exam
By Gideon Ayeni
A Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) candidate who scored an impressive 326 in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has taken to social media to express frustration after being rescheduled to retake the test.
The JAMB candidate, who goes by the username @swagpriest2 on X (formerly Twitter), had before being rescheduled celebrated his earlier performance by posting: “Hope 326 isn’t a bad score for Twitter NG.”
However, in a surprising turn of events, the candidate received an official message from JAMB informing him that he had been rescheduled to sit for the examination again despite his earlier result.
Sharing a screenshot of the message, he wrote:
“WTF I got rescheduled… I’m not even in Lagos. Gosh, this country is so awful.”
The development follows JAMB’s recent admission that technical glitches and irregularities occurred at several computer-based test (CBT) centers across the country. As a result, multiple candidates regardless of their initial scores are being required to retake the exam.
The post quickly went viral, drawing sympathy from other users who described similar experiences and criticized the system’s inefficiencies.
Many questioned why high-scoring candidates were being penalized, especially when the fault lay with the examination body and its accredited centers.
Read some netizens’ reactions to the JAMB candidate who was rescheduled for another exam despite his earlier high score:
@darhythms: “Also did you by any chance write in Lagos and then move afterwards?”
@__onisamuel: “Is it that they just pick candidates to result again?”
@Yhuchez: “Lmao. Them take back the score. Them say jo be your own.”
@mrsaka_1: “Thought they said they rescheduled those that scored below 200 only ?”
@99daagentts: “So wtf happened to your previous results? What’s the necessity of sitting again for another exam??”
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