PASSING JAMB WITH LESS WORK AND WITHOUT CHEATING!(6)
CONTINUED FROM PART 5
(B) BAFANA BAFANA METHOD (THE GUESSING GAME)
- This is a fancy name for the 2nd JAMB technique.The name given to it was influenced by a soccer competition going on at the time of this write up.It is a method based on probabilities like in soccer pools ,lotteries or slot machines. Another name for it is AMBLING AND GAMBLING! It can also be called the “act of a one eyed, one armed bandit”! Despite its name and derived meanings it is a serious game that could decide the fate of many students.
- Fortunately or unfortunately it is not based on any observation or simplest form of logic . It is based on what is called a hunch, instinct, feeling or intuition. It is an elimination process that allows you to create more time for application of the third method if need be.
- This method is to “flow with ones feeling”. The general rule is that one should not go against one’s impulse unless you are sure you are wrong.
…mason college students putting up a play on the art of savings after a public lecture on same topic…
4. Bafana Bafana is usually used for questions classified as HARD after Operation Sweep has been fully applied to EASY ones.Hard questions as said earlier are those u have no clues about making it difficult to reduce options given.
5. In simple terms,statisticians have advised that students should choose either B or C if they are still among the options not yet eliminated mentally.
6. Specifically, if you have A,B,C or B,C,D you may toss a coin in your head or choose them alternately.
7.A and D are not usually picked because examiners regularly use them as ALUMINIUM FOILS to wrap their answers in B or C. So some experts have suggested when in serious doubt the probability of being correct when B or C is chosen is as high as 40%, that is, 4 out of 10.
8.The same experts have also said when in doubt go along with your first guess, hunch or feeling to save time for the third method which requires more logical thinking from available hints,if any.
…femi igbekoyi and another student(on the bench) gasping for breath and surrounded by staff care-givers after a marathon race which was a yearly event in mason college…JAMB and post-Jamb exams are like marathon races for students until they secure admissions into higher institutions…
(C) “OGBUNIGWE” (HINTS) METHOD
1.When the other two methods have been used to the fullest, all the remaining questions which are usually made up of DISTRACTERS or TIME-WASTERS should be subjected to the third technique called OGBUNIGWE.It is so-called to grab the attention of Nigerian students to its substance.
2.OGBUNIGWE refers to land mines used by our brothers from eastern states during the Nigerian Civil War to eliminate en-mass many soldiers from the federal side. It was mass elimination by choice depending on the areas the Biafrans felt were mostly in need. Conventional weapons were short in supply and tactics were based on the simple logic to kill many “birds” with limited number of stones(land mines) available.And it was effective for awhile with demoralising impact on the federal troops.
3.When applied to JAMB exams especially for making choices among options, the process can be described as a way for killing all distracters or time-wasters by logical observation and choice after the first two methods have been applied. Remember that in JAMB most of the questions called TIME-WASTERS have to be decided between two similar alternatives or three similar options. The third method is different in the sense that one usually need an idea or a “PROMPTER” to help one in making an informed decision or an educated guess for a “kill”
most of those in this pic would probably be surprised to see it…most of them have graduated from various universities home and abroad by now…the two on the far right are now working in different banks but their mason college bond remain as strong as ever…they took the jamb exam using the same techniques stated in this write-up…..
4.It can be called logical guessing while the B.B. can be called psychological guessing based on personal feeling or intuition.
5. This is a method that can only be used when you have created or crafted some extra time by using the other two methods smartly. The technique should never be used before the other two methods.
6. The next question to ask then are what are these hints which can be used under this method? Mercifully experts in several write-ups have listed almost twenty of them which we have extracted after downloading and reading almost 800 pages of their opinions! They have been listed as the final write-up (part 7) for passing JAMB without cheating!
…who does not love la pizza at mega plaza?…our students did…but they studied hard for their jamb exams first…
(D) BUT A FEW MORE WORDS OF CAUTION ON THE THREE TECHNIQUES !
7.Knowing these techniques without putting them into active use before the examination is of no use.
8. And for any practice session please give yourself a test and afterwards subject your performance to some logical analysis by drawing up what we have called THE EDUPEDIA JAMB TECHNIQUES MATRIX (please see an example below) .Please ask any tutor in charge of your preparations for JAMB to explain the matrix and it implications to you.As you can see the number of questions usually based on hints should be very few.
THE EDUPEDIA JAMB TECHNIQUES MATRIX
| J/M | NATURE OF SUBJECT | CALCULATIVE | NON-CALCULATIVE | ||||
| S/N | TECHNIQUES | RIGHT | WRONG | TOTAL | RIGHT | WRONG | TOTAL |
| 1. | OPERATION SWEEP | 25 | 5 | 30 | 25 | 5 | 30 |
| 2. | BAFANA BAFANA | 8 | 12 | 20 | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| 3. | OGBUNIGWE | - | - | - | 4 | - | 4 |
| TOTAL | 33 | 17 | 50 | 37 | 13 | 50 | |
9. Please remember that no candidate can know all the answers to all questions and each candidate must do some guess work.
10. Double answers or blank answers are not smart: they will be treated as incorrect answers by the scanner.
11. NEVER panic if you see a question you did not expect or prepare for. Use your hunch to take a decision on the options as indicated under BAFANA BAFANA!
12. ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS unless there is an instruction on the papers that says you should not.
13.Don’t be the first to leave the exam hall. Revise your work if there is time.
…so young and innocent-looking …they all took jamb exams using the same techniques…shade(second from the right) came out with a first class degree from a top Nigerian university!…
(E) CONCLUDING SUMMARY
1. PLAN + PREPARE + PRACTICE = PASS AND PASS + PRAYERS = VICTORY!!!
2. NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE TECHNIQUES, HOW DO YOU MAKE USE OF THEM TO PASS JAMB?
3. IF YOU NEED JAMB MENTORING WE SHALL BE PREPARED TO OFFER YOU THIS SERVICE AS ADVERTISED EARLIER ON ONE OF THE PAGES OF THIS BLOG.
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