Some of the candidates in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and education stakeholders are uncomfortable with the way and manner JAMB test is conducted recently with a policy which, to yours truly,is barbaric, callous and totally unacceptable. I mean, where in the world are people forced to accept things which are not their choice? This is like the proverbial saying of taking a horse to a river, only that in this case Ojerinde and co are trying to force the horse to drink from the river. Of course I understand that this policy came up as a result of their desire to balance things and ensure that a greater number of people got admission this year; caution, should however be their watchood. You don't do things because you think you can do them. In my opinion, for JAMB to go ahead in choosing schools for jambites would tantamount to gross injustice on the part of the candidates. It is, in short,an impediment on people's freedom of choice. Honestly, I don't see any sense in this unpopular policy.
Sometimes when these men and women that we think should know better make policies and decisions you can't help but think they are reasoning from their anus. Come to think of it, JAMB came out some times ago to say that for degree award institutions their cut off mark is 180 while that of polytechnic and colleges of education should be 150. Why would they now wake up to implement a policy that has kept not just jambites but also their parents on their toes? They also said that it was because too many people applied certain schools.
It is totally wrong for Joint Admission and Matriculation Board to be the ones deciding the school that candidates should be posted to. They had already done that by reducing the number of university choices which jambites used to have to one.
This policy would have been a welcomed development if things are equal (or at least near equal) in the universities we have in this country. And another disadvantage of this stupid policy is that it came at the wrong time. For crying out loud.
People would rather be happy that they tried their choice but at the end, due to stiff competition it didn't work out. If JAMB does not put an end to this lapses it would leave a lot of young youth mad and unhappy.
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