My Neighborhood Watch #103 - Reporting Events Around us

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👁️‍🗨️ Uncertainty in the Air: My Final Year Exams in Disarray

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Greetings Everyone! 🌍 it's quite unfortunate that my Final Lap Turned Chaotic

• Of times, it's being said that the final lap of a race always determines the true strength of a runner. And so as a final-year student of the University of Uyo, I had earlier expected this last semester to be an expensive time of reflection, focus, and preparation.

This very brand i don protect am tire ouh, be like the brand go begin protect me too

But Sadly my neighborhood, our academic environment currently is clouded with confusion, delay, and definitely a poor planning, most especially around the ongoing 2023/2024 second semester examination. This, verily by God’s own grace, is supposed to be my final exam as an undergraduate. But what should’ve been a smooth and amazing academic journey is now a frustrating marathon of constant changes in my institution. Causing lot of chaos and misleading students on preparation of what to really expect. At this point I advice my fellow students to prepare in all round, expecting the unexpected because it might happen.

^{So these are a brief experiences of what's happening in my school environment}

📆 Postponed Dates and Shifting Expectations

Officially at the beginning of the semester, our exam marking the closure of the session was initially set to begin on 2nd June. Due to unforseen delays, few departments and lecturers couldn’t complete their syllabus in time and so pleaded with the school management for a postponement. A memo was eventually released to us shifting the exam to 16th June. Students, including myself, then shifted focus, bracing up for the new date.

	That laugh 😂 was necessary

🖥️ From Manual to CBT: A Muddled Decision

Shortly just after the postponement, rumors spread that Computer-Based Testing (CBT) would rather replace our usual manual exam format. Our Lecturers began telling us to prepare for CBT during classes. The Chemistry Department, where my department 🏬 affiliate with was said to be fully ready, and so we were informed that all five courses would be conducted via CBT. We were as well notified to pay a non refundable amount: ₦500 per course for cbt during registration on my end, amounting to a total of ₦2,500 for the five courses registration.

• Just as we did adjusted to that change before, another memo moved the exams yet again, and this time to 30th June, citing some departments' failure to submit exam questions yet.

🗓️ The Shocking Timetable Before Us

A screenshot from the school exam timetable, the CBT mode

	A screenshot from the school exam timetable, non CBT mode

Just Yesterday, two exam timetables were released: one of it for CBT and the other one for manual exams. To our surprise, only the course Coordination Chemistry, CHM423 appeared on the CBT list. The remaining four were set to be written manually and appears on the non CBT exam timetable.
The worst still is that, our first exam day features a two major courses: Organic Synthesis (manual) and Coordination Chemistry (CBT), both of these courses known to be extremely tough. This very chaotic scheduling has left us students disoriented, tired, and underprepared.

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Conclusion

The so repeated postponements, last-minute decisions as usual, unclear communication, and dual exam formats has really reflect a poor planning. For a university of this very caliber, this isn’t just disappointing to me as I feel, but it’s unfair to students who really deserve better closure to their academic journey. We certainly needs structure, empathy, and of course accountability from the school management.

• I whishes that let this very report be a voice from campus, a call for a better systems that prioritize students’ success because the School Mismanagement has Hurts the Students

I wish to invite @bessie2023, @nsijoro and @bossj23.

  -•- Thanks Y'all for Reading -•-

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