Is There Negative Marking In Jamb UTME?

      Oftentimes, our user have put this questions straight up to us, and due to the number of users wanting answers to this questions we have decided to discuss this publicly and in full details. We asked that you read attentively, but First of all my name is Olamide B. Educational specialist of SWIFTSPEED UNIVERSAL TECHNOLOGY support team, today, I'll be talking/writing extensively on this popular questions circulating the heart of most UTME CANDIDATES.

WHAT IS NEGATIVE MARKING?
 To the best of my understanding, I think what that meant is subtracting from students mark intentionally just to make them fail and as well re-register for the exam, but to clear you beyond doubt, negative marking doesn't exist in Jamb, Jamb current system of management is very fair and transparent, I know you'd want reasons, reasons why I said such do not exist in Jamb, and yes I'll be discussing the reason in full today, you can adjust your sitting position if you're not comfortable and read attentively.

1 UNIVERSALITY AND POPULATION

See, My Dear, you're not the only one who registered for Jamb, over a million plus of students did all over Nigeria, not in one state, I repeat, all over Nigeria, Negative Marking deals with favoritism, Jamb do not practice favoritism, UTME Is not your secondary school exam where your Teacher particularly want a student to pass and succeed or supercede others, in fact, Jamb doesn't know you, and they do not have any form of social engagement with you, talk less of favoritism, why would they want you to Fail?, OK you should assume that Jamb Exam markers are people, which is not true anyways, but let assume, why would they selectively set some number of students aside out of over 1million just to fail them intentionally?, as far as I know Jamb is UNIVERSAL, and y'all are treated equally because you have registered through the same process, paid the same money, and you have done the same exam, what makes your questions to be slightly different from each other is because computer have chosen the questions on the server randomly for everyone. So on UNIVERSALITY and POPULATION, negative marking does not exist.


2. DIGITALIZATION

   With the aid of advanced technology, Jamb exam are now taken through the computer based testing, that in its own way, speed up the process of the matriculation exam and egregiously minimize examination malpractices. How do we relate this to Negative Marking?, thank you, see my Dear Friend, your questions are programmed, and during the setup, answer have been chosen for each question, when you start answering your questions, immediately you select an option as your answer, the system already mark you wrong or right depending on the right answers programmed with the questions on the system and also the depending on the answers you have chosen, so actually, immediately you click submit, the system automatically sum up the number of questions you were able to answer correctly and send the total to jamb directly. This full explanation should explicitly explain to you that Jamb do not have the whole time in this world to eventually sit down and start Marking the test of over 1million students, abi why do you think waec and neco examination results usually takes more than two month  or more to be released?, it's because the exam are being marked by people, but jamb releases students result within 3 days or a week at most, do you think the whole jamb staffs can mark 1.4million script in 3days?, No, computer do all this things, and as far as computer uses artificial intelligence, you can not vividly tell me that computer recognize your face and have decided to make you negative because it thinks you're ugly or looking unfamiliar, No that's not possible!!!.

These two reasons should do, see, you're the architect of your success and calamity, Jamb is an examination body established by federal government to conduct matriculation examination, and in fact, do not have time to mark you off, they don't even know you physically, all they have is your record. So whatever you see as you score is certainly the outcome of your hard work or laziness.

I believe I have helped someone today, you can ask me questions in the comment box, in case you have one at all.

Have a nice day.