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Time To Scrap Ogun State Unified Examination. by Nobody: 6:09am On Aug 01, 2016 |
Ibikunle Amosun was first elected as the
governor of Ogun-State in
2011. On assumption of office, he decided to
unify the terminal
examinations being conducted by public primary
and secondary schools.
This was in fulfillment of his campaign promise
to revive the falling
standard of education in the state.
The new education policy was well received by
parents and teachers
who felt it would help achieve a uniformity in
testing students'
ability. Not much thought was given to the
feasibility and
sustainability of this grandiose policy.
Five years on, a policy that was well received
when it was
introduced has become a cause for concern and
worry to many people in
the state.
Since the introduction of the unified
examination in 2011, school
children have never written the examination at
the right time. This
makes it impossible for teachers to mark the
scripts on time and
prepare students' results.
At first, it was thought to be a teething
problem that would be
overcome as time went on. Rather than this
happening, the challenge
keeps recurring every term, proving more difficult
to surmount than
the previous term. I cannot remember the last
time public schools
students were given their results at the end of
the term. They are
usually asked to come for their results during the
holidays or the
following term.
Many students also complained about the
nature of the questions
being asked in the examination. They claimed
many of the topics on
which questions are asked have never been
taught in their classrooms.
This then begs the questions: is there a unified
syllabus that public
schools teachers must adhere to? Also, do all
school children in
Ogun-State use the same set of textbooks? The
answer to the two
questions is a resounding no! Public schools in
Ogun-State make use of
different textbooks which explains why some
topics are strange to some
students.
18th July, 2016, was a day every public school
student in
Ogun-State eagerly looked forward to. It was the
day their promotional
examination was to begin. As expected, many of them had burnt the
midnight candle to ensure they do well in the
examination and ease
their passage to the next class.
Many of them woke up early and left for their
various schools that
Monday morning. Their high spirits and
enthusiasm were later dampened
when it dawned on them that their examination
papers were no where in
sight. Many of them returned home dispirited and
acutely traumatized.
This went on for four days until they began the
examination on Friday,
22nd July, 2016— the day examination was
scheduled to end.
Many school teachers had to start calling
parents on the phone to
send their wards to school to write the
examination since many of them
had given up hope of writing the examination and
have chosen to stay
back at home.
The starting of the examination didn't bring
much respite to
students as they were still subjected to further
psychological strain.
The examination was marred by late arrival of
question papers which
forced many students to write their papers late
into the night. In
fact, the conduct of the unified examination this
gone term left more
to be desired. It unambiguously exposed the
shoddiness, ineptness, and
unpreparedness of the government to conduct
such a statewide
examination.
One also wonders if an assessment of the
effects of the centralized
examination has been carried out. Every year,
Ogun-State keeps falling
in the performance indices release by the West
Africa Examination
Council—WAEC. This is an incontrovertible proof
that the unified
examination has had no positive effects on
students' performance in
external examinations. This has also clearly
shown that there is more
to improving the standard of education in the
state than a unified
examination.
With the paucity of funds being experienced by
the state, it is
foolhardy to continue with such money gulping
policy. The government
should save itself further embarrassment , and
school children
excruciating psychological trauma by allowing
schools to conduct their
own examinations as it was hitherto done. This will free up funds that
can be channelled into the provision of learning
facilities and
construction of more classrooms for students.
The unified examination has failed to achieve
its objectives; it is
time to scrap it and save our education from
further damage. |
Re: Time To Scrap Ogun State Unified Examination. by babalonshee(m): 6:16am On Aug 01, 2016 |
I totally agree with you ...... imagine students going home by 5pm on exam day |
Re: Time To Scrap Ogun State Unified Examination. by Nobody: 7:28am On Aug 01, 2016 |
babalonshee:The unified examination has done more harm than good. Many students won't really enjoy their holidays since their fate still hangs in the balance. The failure to make their promotional examination results available to them has left many of them drifting between fear and hope. |
Re: Time To Scrap Ogun State Unified Examination. by Nobody: 8:53am On Aug 02, 2016 |
fynestboi, lalasticlala, can this get to the front page? |
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