Few days before the commencement of the on-going UTME, the body mentioned that they are going to make use of an anti-guessing software so as to prevent students that are professional guesser's being successful.
Ever since then, I've been thinking of what the software will be like and how the programmers will code the software. Last saturday students of mine that happened to be very well above average (70-80%) wrote there exam and all scored below 200.
I asked them one after the other what the exam was like and they said it's simple, that there is repetition of questions from 2007 and 2015 questions, that the result they were expecting was around 280+, that they just can't explain what happened.
Since sunday, I've been thinking what could have happened, and the only thing I could think of is if the anti-guessing software JAMB was talking about could be negative marking.
In any case it is, my questions are;
1) Is the use of negative marking justifiable in evaluating students according to curriculum and instruction (SEC) in education?
2) Is the use of negative marking without it been spelt out crystal clear to the students before the exam?


Cc:Lalasticlala, Seun and other moderators.

its just not fair if they are using negative marking.

AdaEkwunife73:
its just not fair if they are using negative marking.

I personally see the negative marking of a thing as rubbish.