sage_: These is all happening under the nose of the southern reps. What are their governors even saying. For those from the south who want to genuinely criticize GEJ government, your time is here. So much hypocrisy in the land.

ketoprofen:



and who is asking bauchi andGombe students not to turn up for exams? amd who is forcing Abia students to turn up for exams too? mtchew

enigma_otr:

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/06/reps-fault-cut-off-marks-for-unity-schools/

ACM10: It is only in Nigeria that schools are establised for the purpose of unity, instead of learning. Yet some mofos are shamelessly defending it. Later you wonder why Nigeria is a shithole.

noblezone:

Your "best brains" really caught my attention!
Are you saying that the best brains from Yobe can manage to get just 2 out of 200?
Your explanations are okay, except that those are not the issues we are talking about.

How will someone who scored 2 (which means basic english and maths are serious problems) cope with someone who score 120?

Mind you, it not Anambra that decided to make their cut off to 139, it is the policy from the Federal ministry of education.

Emm, please as far as I can recall, 40% is the least pass mark!
What is wrong with you people? 2 is just a score of 1%! 1% for goodness sake!

This is why I will have to do whatever I can to make sure that we get Biafra out of Nigeria. Nigeria will never make progress with this sort of madness.

My God! So there is nothing like pass mark because it is unity school>

A child who cannot solve simple equation will be sent to secondary school to solve quadratic equation, and perhaps he does not need to pass. He must be promoted also, so that his quota must remain filled.

I am ashamed of being called a Nigerian.
I don't blame you guys sha, I blame Lord Luggard!

basisop: This is how mediocrity starts. Are some of the students half humans? Same way they will also be pushed to graduate and they will sort themselves into a sensitive office as leaders. Our future is....

Bontee:

The cost for attending a unity school is the same irrespective of the cutoff mark used in gaining admittance so the logic does not correlate for me and there is no where in the world such is practiced.

C. whyte:
You guys should reason the order way too.
Lowering the cut off marks in northern states is a plan to get these kids to school b4 they grow to become idle and then Boko Haram.

I don't think it is a bad idea to lower cut off marks to get these kids to school.

Bontee: It is better people read up about the unity schools of a thing before they start abusing the people of northern Nigeria. Its not like every kids from the south is smart or by default more intelligent than any kid from the north.

IGBO-SON:


^^^I think part of the problem is that the core moslem north of today has lost that sense of pride and dignity that Sadauna had, that saw the north in his day try to match the south in all aspects of human/economic development.

The present crop of northern elite (well most to be fair) are just interested in gaining and holding on to power at the centre to control the allocation and distribution of economic largesse and benefits; like oyel wells, gov't contracts, high-level appointments, and enacting policies (like the one in question) that could help keep the 'competition' in sight.

Ahmadu Bello would be spinning in his grave!

sam4xadams: this policy is a shame. What's wrong in setting A pass mark?

Bontee: The unity schools are model schools with a defined purpose and goal hence the criteria and system of admission used to direct activities towards that goal. It is a simple methodology, x amount of students from each state to be distributed in equal y amounts to all the unity schools across the country except where a state cannot fill her allocation. Each state has their own criteria in selecting students to fill their allocation and its not the business or concern of other states.

We can decide to bring five nuclear scientist from ten different countries but you will agree with me that they are not all equal in intelligence even if they are all the best brains representing their country. There are many other ills which you guys are overlooking, educationally less developed states syndrome, catchment areas, appointing indigenes mostly to state civil service and giving scholarship to state indigenes only. Physician heal thyself first before you condemn northerners for an insignificant amount of unity schools in comparison to the multitudes of state schools littered all over the place.

@cong_kg

Then tell the national assembly to abolish state of origin in place of state of residence.



There is a passmark but different for each state based on students performance and appropriate level to meetup with given allocation for the state.

@ekwah

Its not compulsory to attend unity schools as there are numerous state schools littered all over the place and even private schools are everywhere now.

@noblezone

Setting the cutoff point to be 2 does not mean there no students with pass marks way above 100 from those states. The cut off points are set so low to accommodate as many student as possible in view of the allocated slot given to these states. Coping with student with higher pass marks is not relevant as teamwork and proper teaching methods will help every student grow and stimulate learning that might not be possible if allowed to continue with the teaching methods used in their state of origin.

Most state has more secondary schools than unity schools and even more capacity to accommodate huge number of students than unity schools. So our focus should be on upgrading the standard of our state schools because the unity schools were the best in the country at the time of their establishment. When we focus on the purpose and system created for the unity schools then it is no need to fuse about the present situation. If you are going to make the cutoff points equal and uniform then there is no point calling them unity schools anymore. We can aswell abolish catchment areas and educationally less developed states provisions in our admission process also as people get cheated with such provisions.

Bontee: The unity schools are model schools with a defined purpose and goal hence the criteria and system of admission used to direct activities towards that goal. It is a simple methodology, x amount of students from each state to be distributed in equal y amounts to all the unity schools across the country except where a state cannot fill her allocation. Each state has their own criteria in selecting students to fill their allocation and its not the business or concern of other states.

We can decide to bring five nuclear scientist from ten different countries but you will agree with me that they are not all equal in intelligence even if they are all the best brains representing their country. There are many other ills which you guys are overlooking, educationally less developed states syndrome, catchment areas, appointing indigenes mostly to state civil service and giving scholarship to state indigenes only. Physician heal thyself first before you condemn northerners for an insignificant amount of unity schools in comparison to the multitudes of state schools littered all over the place.

@cong_kg

Then tell the national assembly to abolish state of origin in place of state of residence.



There is a passmark but different for each state based on students performance and appropriate level to meetup with given allocation for the state.

@ekwah

Its not compulsory to attend unity schools as there are numerous state schools littered all over the place and even private schools are everywhere now.

@noblezone

[b]Setting the cutoff point to be 2 does not mean there no students with pass marks way above 100 from those states. The cut off points are set so low to accommodate as many student as possible in view of the allocated slot given to these states. [/b]Coping with student with higher pass marks is not relevant as teamwork and proper teaching methods will help every student grow and stimulate learning that might not be possible if allowed to continue with the teaching methods used in their state of origin.

Most state has more secondary schools than unity schools and even more capacity to accommodate huge number of students than unity schools. So our focus should be on upgrading the standard of our state schools because the unity schools were the best in the country at the time of their establishment. When we focus on the purpose and system created for the unity schools then it is no need to fuse about the present situation. If you are going to make the cutoff points equal and uniform then there is no point calling them unity schools anymore. We can aswell abolish catchment areas and educationally less developed states provisions in our admission process also as people get cheated with such provisions.

josh4ever:

Our future ARE blight! I doesn't knows why you piple is worry over a cutting of a marks. Look, it are Wetin is dey inside the head naaa!

InvertedHammer:

See what I mean?

IGBO-SON:


^^^I think part of the problem is that the core moslem north of today has lost that sense of pride and dignity that Sadauna had, that saw the north in his day try to match the south in all aspects of human/economic development.

The present crop of northern elite (well most to be fair) are just interested in gaining and holding on to power at the centre to control the allocation and distribution of economic largesse and benefits; like oyel wells, gov't contracts, high-level appointments, and enacting policies (like the one in question) that could help keep the 'competition' in sight.

Ahmadu Bello would be spinning in his grave!

noblezone:

Nwa nna,
we must do something for our generation!
I am not pretending about it. If Nigeria cannot reform, then Biafra is a very good option.
It is futile trying to ride a dead horse!