This teacher shared why he decided to take the UTME again

• The Nigerian teacher who took the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) successful 2025 has opened up
• The teacher said helium took the introspection due to the fact that helium wanted to spell backmost to the assemblage to survey medicine
• He said it has ever been his imagination to beryllium a doctor, noting that helium already has a grade successful biology but inactive wants to beryllium a doctor

John Felix, a biology teacher who has taught the taxable for 18 years, was dissatisfied with his show in the 2025 UTME.

Felix took the introspection with truthful confidence, but the effect shocked him. His show was abysmal.

The teacher took the UTME resit exam. Photo credit: Facebook/John Felix and JAMB.
Source: UGC

He posted it connected Facebook, showing people that helium scored 37 successful biology, a taxable helium has a grade in. His wide people was 159, a concern which did not beryllium good with him.

He said successful his post:

"Anybody who knows maine knows that nether nary circumstances tin I person a people arsenic debased arsenic this. Throughout my days of seeking my archetypal admission, determination wasn't a time I scored beneath 200. Those were days erstwhile JAMB was pugnacious similar uncooked Kanda, speech of these years erstwhile JAMB adjacent asked questions connected concord and possessive pronouns. Leki headmaster that I americium definite I failed lone 1 question, oregon is it the comprehension?"

It was aboriginal discovered that determination was a glitch which caused 379,000 candidates to neglect the UTME successful Lagos and the South East. Felix was 1 of them and helium has taken a resit exam.

Felix says JAMB mistake was avoidable

Speaking to Legit.ng successful an exclusive interview, Felix said the effect was shameful and blamed JAMB for what happened.

His words:

"If they tin person specified a glitch and they could resoluteness it earlier we started shouting, that's precise shameful. In fact, Alex Onyia, the CEO of Educare mentioned that it was connected the 17th league that JAMB recovered retired that determination was error, that they didn't provender the strategy with the close marking scheme. Then they corrected it from the 17th league and past 1 to 16 was near similar that. So if that should beryllium true, it means that somebody's caput needs to roll. Because that was deliberate. If they recovered retired that determination was really an mistake successful the system, and the archetypal session, 2nd and up to 16th, that is erstwhile much than fractional of those who should constitute JAMB indispensable person taken and they failed to pass america connected time."

Error should person been detected earlier

According to Felix, JAMB should person been capable to observe the mistake connected clip and denote it to the wide public.

Instead, helium said the introspection assemblage went up to denote an erroneous result, which caused trauma to galore people.

His words:

"Because what they should person done is to telephone a property league and accidental okay, beloved candidates, we are sorry, we person observed that thing went incorrect portion you were writing, truthful we are rescheduling your exam. They should person rescheduled the exam wrong those days exam was going on. That would person been amended and it would person saved them from this shame. But they conscionable ignored it, waited and published an insulting result. You tin imagine, similar I'm crying and complaining."

He said adjacent if helium did not bash good successful different subjects, helium was definite determination was nary mode helium would person scored lone 37 successful biology.

Felix said that if radical did not talk up, galore candidates would person taken their results that way, and past they would beryllium blamed for not doing well, whereas it was not their fault.

He noted:

"Okay, fto maine not reason astir chemistry, physics oregon English, I don't person immoderate certificate successful them. But what astir the biology I teach? The biology I studied successful the assemblage wherever I person archetypal degree. In fact, I'm a masters grade pupil successful biology. I'm presently penning my thesis. So, I don't spot however O'Level biology volition travel and I volition people 37. I don't spot that coming. So, if I didn't commencement complaining and astir apt others followed suit, and that man, Alex Onyia, who knows what would person happened? So, everybody would person accepted their scores that way, and past it would person been that determination was an abysmal performance. Who knows if this is not what has been happening implicit the years? And radical person been lamenting. So, I don't consciousness bully astir this benignant of a happening happening successful the introspection assemblage similar that."

Felix says determination was nary occupation with the machine helium used

However, Felix said that erstwhile helium was penning the examination, determination were nary problems with the machine helium used. He said everything was creaseless until helium finished. He said the glitch whitethorn not person travel from the introspection centres.

Felix, who scored 159 successful the archetypal UTME with errors, says his volition is to survey medicine. Photo credit: Facebook/John Felix.
Source: Facebook

He told Legit.ng:

"When I wrote my exam, determination were nary method glitches, my machine ran smoothly. There was thing similar shutting down and coming up again. All done the time. I deliberation I utilized astir 1:35 minutes oregon so. Nothing happened. The strategy was okay."

Why Felix wrote JAMB contempt having a archetypal degree

According to Felix, his imagination has ever been to go a aesculapian doctor. He said helium is presently doing his masters successful biology but inactive wants to prosecute medicine.

He said:

"I person a Bsc Education successful biology obtained from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). I had to spell to the NOUN aft seeing medicine and country for respective years successful national universities and I couldn't get. I was looking for a national assemblage due to the fact that I came from a mediocre background. So, I needed a national assemblage wherever the fees are cheaper, truthful that astatine least, I tin find a mode of sorthing the schoolhouse fees with my parents. But I couldn't get admission. So a person introduced maine to NOUN and I went there, obtained a grade successful biology. I graduated with a bully grade. Although, it's 2:2 but I got 3.49. I'm not a dullard. I person a archetypal grade successful biology. Now, wherefore I wrote JAMB is that I privation to inactive prosecute that my imagination of doing medicine and surgery. That's wherefore I wrote. I wrote past twelvemonth and I got 247. Unfortunately, too, I couldn't summation admittance past year."

Felix scored 282 successful the resit JAMB examination.

Man checks his children's UTME results

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that a Nigerian man shared a video of the infinitesimal helium attempted to cheque his children's show successful the 2025 UTME.

The man's 2 daughters were jittery erstwhile helium said helium wanted to personally cheque their scores successful the UTME.

After sending the required codification to the JAMB exam checking number, the antheral shared the effect helium got.

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Source: Legit.ng