Why Post Utme MUST Be Scrapped Completely (5 Reasons) - Education

Why Post Ume MUST be scrapped completely.


This is not a response thread to Matolysis's, as I find his
interesting but bereft of facts and also lacks awareness of
the current tertiary admission process. No apologies.
In our time it was strictly JAMB , if you score high, the
higher your chances. Though there was malpractice then,
JAMB has improved today especially with Computer based
testing introduction.
I have wards who passed through the PUME process, which
is significantly different from our time, for example, now
many schools do not invite second choice for their
screening and this is at variance with JAMB procedure. I am
also an insider of sorts in the PUME process, and I'll use
the Uniben scenario to give reasons why PUME is illegal
and must be scrapped and defaulting schools prosecuted.
1. Post UME infringes on the sole power right of Jamb/
UTME to give admissions. If you go through the JAMB act,
it states that only the body has the right to conduct exams
after charging fees, give undergraduate admissions,
carryout placements in Universities, Polytechnics and
Colleges of Education. The universities are only supposed
to send their requirements and preferences. The only
exception is Post graduate admissions. But today
Universities charge another amount , sometimes higher than
JAMB's to conduct a parallel exam clearly defying the act,
and give admissions using methods known to no one else.
Uniben announced admission screening fee of 2000 and
optional 1000 for past questions. But the reality is that,
processing Uniben PUME/ ASE 2016 costs 3550. There is
no option there, it just displays this amount and asks for
MasterCard/Verve details.


2. Secondly, Post UME is not transparent, it is even more
fraud prone than JAMB. CBT has greatly reduced fraud,
eliminating text message answers, buying answers online
and impersonation. We now have biometric check in and
check out, and CBT even makes the exam easier to
invigilate as candidates are forced to stare at their screens
and nothing else. A bonus is the availability of system
calculator which wasn't totally available in the era of pencil
test.
BUT Pume is not even standardized, no preparation
syllabus, some schools purposely set questions from A-
Level just to be wicked and reduce number of successful
people, others are known for giving very little time. And at
the end they just send admission notification without
pasting any list publicly and denying some admission even
after surpassing the JAMB cutoff.

3. Post UME introduces avenues for special candidates
getting better courses. Special candidates refers to Royal
father's recommendees , governor's candidates , VC's
candidates, staff children and state of origin waivers etc
These sets of people would score less than others and must
get admitted , in many cases get their course of choice.
In Uniben, to enter the college of Medicine, staff kids have
their cutoff 10marks below regular cut off. So while a
normal candidate aims for 70, they'll aim for 60. After
taking the number of staff kids they want, the rest is filled
with merit and government/royal candidates. And they all
wrote the same JAMB. And the non staff candidates who
fall under 60 < x < 70 are pushed to pharmacy and Life
Sciences.

That is one reason why they do not release cutoff before
results, as they need to fit in their people first and adjust
and that's why majority of the post ume era medical
graduates are children of doctors and professors; Not
because Medicine runs in their veins but because corruption
runs instead. There have also been reports of score upgrade
in different schools including UNIBEN.
And That is what gives rise to fraudsters, result checkers
and predators who take advantage of candidates giving
them fake admission. And the school waits till final year
exams before publishing lists of fake students, meanwhile
they've been collecting school fees from 100L.


4. Post UME destroys the JAMB score. For instance ,
someone who scored 280 in JAMB would have his score
divided by 8 giving 35 and this will be added to half the
PUME score. Another person who scored 240 would see his
score transformed to 30.. only 5 marks difference.
Assuming the second guy scores 70 in PUMe and the first
guy scores 60, after dividing by two and adding to both
Jamb scores, the two aggregate scores would be equal! The
PUME now more weighted than JAMB. That's why it is
possible to "pass 220 and not enter school".
One would expect that the PUME score is the one divided
and transformed after all it is the illegal exam!


5. PUME makes it difficult for Jamb to monitor admissions.
An admission body that is relegated in its own game. One
would expect that at this time parents would clamour for
schools to start pasting their admission lists with raw
scores attached. not a case of someone with 53 given Law
and another person with 65 reading Foreign languages
when they both put Law as first choice.
Jamb is still a major exam that can never be replaced by the
schemes of money-for-grades lecturers.
Some may argue that Jamb scores are lower than students
expect. This is because of Item Response Psychometric
testing method, which is why people talk about negative
marking etc. This method does not aggregate all the
questions gotten correct, instead questions carry different
marks depending on the set difficulty and depending on
how many people answer that question.
And PUME has seen schools flooded with kids without
emotional intelligence and they can't fend for themselves,
they rush through and pass out and it doesn't even seem
like they went to school.