The confusion which trailed Tuesday’s shoddy commencement of the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, got worse, yesterday, following the delay which lasted over 16 hours, in some of Computer-Based Test, CBT, centres over Internet servers failure and faulty computer sets.
At one of the CBT centres, Certified Institute of Shipping, CIS, in Magbon, Badagry area of Lagos State, candidates were said to have commenced their exams as late as 10p.m., on Tuesday and ended by 4a.m., on Wednesday, owing to Internet failure, leaving parents and guardians, who accompanied their wards to the centre stranded and frustrated.
The Day two of the UTME test nationwide across the 400 CBT centres was greeted with mixed feelings across centres visited by Vanguard.
While some candidates expressed satisfaction over the hitch-free conduct of the examination in their centres, others, however, lamented the shoddy preparations at their centres over lack or fluctuation of
Spill-over
At CIS, Magbon, Badagry, Vanguard gathered that the centre recorded a spill-over of the third batch of candidates who where billed to write their exams by 3p.m., on Tuesday, but could not due to failure of the Internet server, clashing with those billed to write their by 6a.m., yesterday.
A guardian, Mrs. Shukurat Akingbade, whose younger sister was among the candidates that sat for the exam at the CBT centre, decried that they passed the night without food at the centre, even after waiting for over 16 hours before the exams began by 10p.m., on Tuesday.
Similarly, at the University of Nigeria, UNN, Nsukka, Enugu State, Vanguard learned that the exams billed for 6a.m., was delayed for several hours over faulty computer sets. Some candidates were said to have complained that JAMB officials did not give them calculators at the centre owing to insufficient stock.
According to one candidate, who pleaded not to be mentioned, “despite the delay, the exams later went on smoothly. But the issue I had was being given government in my question, even though I did not register for it.”
