The fate of over 1.3 million final year students waiting to sit for the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in May/June is precariously...
The fate of over 1.
Already, the Federal Government has given JAMB and tertiary institutions the go-ahead to conduct this year’s admission pending when a decision on candidates with awaiting result is taken. Going by this decision, 930, 305 candidates who scored 160 and above may not be able to present the necessary requirements for admissions into any university of their choice if schools continue to remain closed as they fall under the awaiting results list.
“JAMB allowed awaiting result candidates to register and also sit for the 2020 UTME. These candidates can’t be considered for admission on awaiting result status. “If you are talking of social distancing, the number of students that are sitting in every centre, the highest in each of the centres where they have general paper, papers like mathematics or English are not more than 200 candidates for that centre and in that centre, you will be sure of having enough classroom accommodation where our children can be sitting for that examination and the spaces also are usually there.
“Subjects like agriculture and science like physics, chemistry, biology, government and Christian Religious Knowledge, they are fewer in number. How many are the candidates? We are the once supervising all these examinations. “We are ready for the examination. The examination ought to have started on the 28 of May. Before the outbreak of Covid -19, we were prepared. If not for the sake of Covid-19 we would have been in the middle of examination by now.
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