OAU Commences 2024/25 Post-UTME: Aspirants Share Mixed Experience

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Adetunji Oluwafemi 

The Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, has on Tuesday, 2nd September, 2025, commenced its 5th online Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME), for the 2024/25 aspirants. Recall that OAU started utilizing an online-based Post-UTME screening during the 2021/22 (Batch A) academic session, and has persisted thence.

The screening exercise as scheduled, is to be held from Monday, 1st September, to Friday, 5th September, 2025, with the first day slated for an online optional mock examination, for the candidates. However, the actual online screening exercise, which affords the candidates the privilege to write the examination anywhere, in a stipulated time printed from their Post-UTME portal, commenced today. 

Moreover, since the examination can be written anywhere, provided the candidate follow the guidelines provided by the institution, many of the aspirants were spotted in several UTME accredited CBT centers, Cyber Cafe, and various Computer Business Centers, while some risked writing the exam at the comfort of their room. 

The ICONS reporters in Ibadan reported the situation of the OAU Post-UTME screening exercise, at the i-Flier College CBT center in Ogungbade, Ibadan. The coordinator of the exercise, who is also a staff at the i-Flier College, Mr Bejide, disclosed how there was a low turnout in the number of candidates, but assured that the CBT center is committed to ensuring that the candidates using their facilities, have the best experience.

      picture of OAU aspirants waiting to write their Post-UTME exam at i-Flier College CBT center 

Bejide further added that, the examination as of the time of the interview, has been going smoothly, as no student has experienced being flagged by the invigilator for violating the examination rules.

One of the candidates, Adetoro Faith, a Mass Communication aspirant, shared her thoughts, saying, “the questions were not too difficult until CRS questions popped up, nevertheless, I thank God for not experiencing network failures.”   — Faith says.

        the second batch writing their exam at i-Flier College 

Another Nursing aspirant, Olalere Deborah, shared similar experience, hoping to have a score above 30, in order to meet up with the previous year's cutoff mark, if replicated this year.

Joseph Okunola, also told ICONS reporters that the strict measures implemented by his invigilator can be equated to none, adding how the invigilator constantly warns him to ensure his surrounding is devoid of people, to avoid being flagged for examination malprctices. In his words, “I have never experienced such a tough invigilation like this before. In fact, at one point, I almost fainted and lost concentration, but God really came through for me. I will never recommend writing it alone in the room for my fellow aspirants, because, if writing in a CBT center can be this tough, only God knows what writing it all alone in the room would look like.”

As the OAU Post -UTME screening exercise continues, the aspirants expectation remains that their intellectual efforts are commensurate with excellent results, to migrate them into the next phase of their admission, as the new academic staff approaches 


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