FRUSTRATION in academics can be more terrible than what most people could imagine, especially when the fault does not emanate from the victim’s end, but from some extraneous factors, such as the examination body or the examiners, who failed to do the right thing at the right time.
Worse still, the impact of this carelessness as the case may be, on the affected person will not only cause stress, but could also influence the victim’s tendency to abandon his education and eventually get frustrated out of the system completely.
The 2011 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC) created a mixed feeling among the candidates who wrote the papers. While some of them were happy over it, some were indifferent and some felt very bad about it.
One of the victims of the 2011 WAEC alleged result errors was Master Afolabi Dairo, who started his academic career as a young dedicated scholar with a vision to become great in life, but had his results withheld.
Afolabi started very well, working against all odds to score 295 in the UTME examination for the 2011 and 2012 academic session. He was invited for the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Post UTME examination in which he had 300 marks. As a result of his brilliant performance, Obafemi Awolowo University offered him an admission on merit to read Accountancy. But his vision was dashed when WAEC refused to release his results, even up to this moment.
Ideally, when results are withheld, it is either the examiners suspected an examination malpractice, or observed an abnormality in the scripts of the affected candidates, or the examiners noted some errors or mistakes, which they want to cross examine before such a result will be released later. However, Afolabi lamented over his withheld result, as he explains his ordeals.
“My academic career started thus; I attended Mayfair Nursery and Primary School. I gained admission into the Federal Government College, Ikirun, Osun State in 2004. During my junior secondary school days, I was an average student. I always scored A1 in Mathematics with good grades in all my other subjects. In my SS3 class, I realised that I was to go to commercial class because of my passion for business studies. During my senior sencondary school days, I realised that I was one of the class champions, though English had always been my problem.
“In my final year, things changed, my love for education grew beyond my imagination. This is God’s doing. Suddenly, reading became my hobby and I started reading. Accounting was my favorite subject and I finished my Accounting text book from cover to cover. So, during my mock examination, I had the 90 per cent in Accounting,” he said, stating the change in his academic prowess.
“I sat for the 2010 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination at the Federal Government College, Ikirun.In that examination, my result was as follows:
Account A1; Commerce A1; Geography A1; Economics B3; Biology B3 ;Maths C5; Agricultural C4; Yoruba C6 and English E8.
I also did Jamb and I scored 248. As a result of my E8 in English I could not proceed to the university. Although, I did Federal Polytechnic of Ede Post UTME and I was offered admission, but I decided not to go because I don’t want to risk a pass in English.
In 2011, I resolved to attend an extra mural school in Ibadan, organised by Mustard Seed University Laboratory at Oke- Ado , Ibadan. The school was the turning point of my life. Apart from the academic activities in the school, the school engaged the students in motivational talk on Wednesdays and fellowship on Fridays. In Mustard Seed, I realised myself and I went into reading.
“I registered with Aromolaran Grammar School, Ilesa in Osun State for the 2011 WAEC May/June examination, which I fully prepared for. I came back to Ibadan to write the UTME examination in which I scored 295. I also did OAU post UTME test and I scored 300. My highest score came from English. I scored 84 in English and 80 in Accounting. Now OAU has offered me an admission to study my choice course. To my surprise, WAEC withheld my result. This is the result I want to use for my admission.
“I am 100 per cent sure that my script can never be the same with another person’s scripts and that there was no report about me. I learnt that some result had been released and mine is still withheld. Ths is very sad. My examination number is 4301906012 and my examination centre is Aromolaran Grammar School. I do not know anybody but God.
I want call on the Federal Ministry of Education, the WAEC body and those in charge of withheld results to look into my case before it is too late. I don’t want my admission to be a waste,” the young boy stated.
Afolabi has a pitiable case that WAEC should reconsider for reassessment to put the smile back on his face. From all indications, he is very sure that WAEC has wrongly withheld his result. Afolabi is from a poor family whose hope is only in education.
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