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JAMB 2017 News: Candidates who bought fake UTME questions for N200K have failed already
Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has warned candidates sitting for the exam not to fall victim to fraudsters who claim to have prepared answers to the examination questions being conducted by JAMB, adding that those who bought and used such papers have already failed.
Prof. Oloyede warned the candidates to desist from buying fake question papers being sold by organised syndicates with the hope that such questions are the authentic JAMB questions which would make them get high marks in the exam.
Reports have shown that some unsuspecting but gullible candidates writing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by JAMB have and may still be buying fake question papers, thinking they are authentic ones.
The reports claim that the candidates pay as much as N200,000 to obtain the fake questions papers from ‘organised syndicates’ who have promised them the papers are real ones that will help them get high marks in the exam.
“Some of the fraudulent persons simply take past question papers and redesign them by changing the date and then sell same to gullible candidates, who might not have prepared well for the examination,” he said.
He said some candidates fell for the trick, paying huge sums of money to purchase the question papers only to be disappointed on the examination day.
“This morning, somebody sent me questions. They call it Orijo and he bought it for N200,000 and when I saw it, it was our questions in 1984 and he just put 2017 on it and started selling it and people are buying it.
“Somebody else called me and said he had all my questions. I asked him to send them to me and when I checked, I just laughed because none of that was in our questions. What people are just doing, they are making money because people are gullible.
“We appeal to people to do things according to the rules. No cutting of corners will work with JAMB and that is why many of the candidates who fell for such blackmail are disappointed.”
The results of the examination conducted on Saturday have been released, he said.
Oloyede expressed satisfaction in the smooth conduct of the examination so far, but decried the poor performance of students from the results of Saturday’s examination.
No fewer than 440,000 candidates out of the 1.7 million that registered for the UTME sat for the examination on the second day.
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