FACE OF THE WEEK II: Meet Our Interesting FYB of The Week, He is Ogunfe

Can I meet you?
I'm the person of Ogunfeitimi Oladapo Moyosoluwa Oluwatobiloba Babatunde Adams of the oriki "Akanni"

Your Nick name?
Ogunfe Number 1, Dapson Adams.
Most people call me OGUNFE though

What part?
Part 5

Where do you stay?
I stay both in Lagos and Ibadan

Your state of origin?
Osun state

Are you in a relationship?
Yes actually,  I'm in a relationship with Jesus Christ :)

What are your hobbies?
Movies, Music, Football, Reading (definitely not school books).

Your best food?
Actually normally my best food is whatever fills me well but for the sake of answering effectively.
Pounded Yam and Egusi

Your favourite colour?
Red

How do you feel as a final year brethren?
I feel the illusion of security and stability I got used to in OAU is almost over.
Above all "I thank God"

How has your journey been so far on OAU campus?
It has been stressful and fun thanks to Lectures, exams and my Friends

What's your best moment on campus?
Best Moment?
Definitely not one or two. There's quite a number of them to choose from.
Let me be Cliché and say "When i got into the department"
PS : You know I'm kidding

Your best spot on OAU Campus?
Reading- AUD 1
Sleeping- AUD 1
INTECU - QS Library
Data - Oven (Physics)

Your role model?
David in the Bible 'cos he's a man after God's heart

What's your most embarrassing moment on campus?
Nil

What can you say about your course of study?
It definitely has its ups and downs. Nevertheless there's no denying the fact it gives a skill if properly harnessed can take you places.

If not Quantity Surveying?
Computer Science, Aeronautic Engineering...

What's your best course so far?
QTS 401
Cos my darling Mr Kadiri did lecture quite well.

Your favourite lecturer?
Mr D. S Kadiri

Your friends?
Kpesko, Goodwill, Jon, Objohnny, Benjee, Beesorlar, Phollu_Blak, Chase and quite a number of people.

Your departmental crush?
C'mon we all know it's Omidiji Abisola Esther

What's your target after graduation?
Normally I would say "Disregard females, Acquire currency" but then the dream got bigger when i heard about the alleged Diezani 90 billion dollars loot. Now it's more "I'll like to feed Africa"

Is marriage visible to you in the next three years?
Definitely not

What are the five things you can't live without?
God's Word
Family Love
Good Music
Good Puns
Oxygen

If you had the chance to go back to part one, what are the things, you would like to correct?
I probably wouldn't change anything. Things went on just fine without them i won't be who i am today.
Not like am big or anything but then i loved my first year

What do you think the department has to improve on?
Nil

Your Philosophy of life

Vanity upon vanity, All is vanity. Do not live life pressured by how people live their's, break a few rules live life (the godly way) and be happy

Your advice to your juniors in the department?
The normal cliché thing to say is "Be good and read your books" but really there are no rules (except the Bible really)
So fail a bit, miss a few classes, discover yourself, be diligent in your goings and above all stay true to yourself

Would you like to make shout out to any one?
Shout out to all Part 5 students.

Thank you for your time
You are welcome

FACE OF THE WEEK I: Meet Our Beautiful Fresher Of The Week, Ayomide

Can I meet you?
ADEDIRAN Ayomide Zainab

Your Nick Name?
Midey

What part?
Part 1

Where do you stay?
Ijaiye, Lagos

Your state of Origin?
Oyo State

Birthday?
9th of May

Relationship status?
Single

Your best food?
Spaghetti and chicken

Your Favourite Colour?
Pink

Your hobbies?
Designing and writing

If not QS?
Geology and Mineral Science

How do you see your course of study?
Very interesting

Your friends?
Rhoda, Motunrayo, Bimbo, Olamide, Precious ,Christiana, and other peepz

Where do you see yourself in 5 years time?
In a big company that is well recognized and famous social life

Would You like to say a shout out to anyone?
Shout out to Rhoda in Chem Eng,  Motunz in QTS, Olamide in FST, Precious in BCH, Odunayo in botany, my social committee members, my roommates and all QTS Students

Thank You for the time
You are welcome

Why Do Students Fail Exam? 15 Reasons That Answers That Question 'Why'

Reasons why students fail exams could be ascribed to so many reasons. However, these reasons should never be an excuse for exam failure. These reasons are just highlighted for the consciousness of students and also to charge them to work towards avoiding them.
15 reasons why students fail exams have been listed here. The first 10 reasons are Pre-examination reasons while the latter 5 are on the exam day.

Here are the top 15 reasons why students fail exam:

PRE-EXAMINATION

1. Laziness
One of the biggest reasons why students fail examination is laziness. A lecturer once said “we don’t have dumb students, but lazy students.” When a student is lazy, he finds it difficult to read, attend classes, do homework, and make researches and other things that can ensure examination success. How is it possible to successfully sit for an exam you virtually know nothing of? Exam success doesn’t work like magic, it involves hard work and diligence.

“we don’t have dumb students, but lazy students.”

2. Over-Confidence
Some students are too confident of themselves that they overlook those tiny things that count. Over-confidence could lead to under performance. Nobody said a little self-confidence in your abilities is wrong but being Over-Confident could be dangerous. Just because you have an idea in a topic does not mean you should go sit for the exam believing that reading such topic would be a waste of time. No matter how simple or small something or somebody may appear, don’t be too sure that you don’t need them. Over-confidence kills.

3. Bad Reading Habit

Most students don’t know how to read and the conditions that best suit their body system. It baffles me how students who haven’t read throughout the semester would want to cover every topic in just one week prior exam. How will that sink in?

4. Lack of Interest

One of the reasons why students fail exams is lack of interest. It would be an uphill task to pass a subject you don’t have interest in. A computer science student whose interest lays so much in photography will find it difficult to read and pass CSC101.

5. Mind-set
Many people don’t really know what the mind-set is one of the reasons why students fail exam. Everything in life lies in the mind. “Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right” (Henry Ford). If you have the mind-set that you will fail, no matter the effort you put in it, you will end up failing.

“Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t — you’re right” — Henry Ford

6. Too Engaged
Some students are just too engaged in one activity or the other that they have no time to figure out why they are too engaged. They have virtually joined all the organizations on campus in such a way that today’s lecture collides with rehearsal class. On returning from the rehearsal, he or she is too tired to study for tomorrow’s text — Failure starts.

7. Friends
If you keep friends who don’t mind failing, then you are not far from failing. These friends would make sure they discourage you from studying hard for exams, see to it that you join them in skipping classes and change your orientation that you can never pass. Since you can’t beat them, you join them.

8. Finance
One of the reasons why students fail exams is their financial power. Poor financial status can hinder students from buying materials that would enhance exam success. They find it hard to get good meals, resourceful materials for studying, and gadgets to make their research works and assignments easier. Paying for excursion to different educational places would also be pretty difficult. A student with very low financial power would be forced to look out for alternatives which are a distraction to their academics.

9. Bad Teachers
Bad teachers make bad students. Some lecturers are just out and out terrible. These set of teachers need to go back to school to begin learning from the scratch. Some teachers have taught their students errors and these students are suffering for it in their respective colleges and institutions. Some campus lecturers are rude, sadists and cruel to students and this has made the students to lose interest in their subjects.
If you do have a bad teacher, never tend to be a bad student aswell.

10. Procrastination
Procrastination is the thief of time, another big reason why students fail. “I will do it later! I will do it later!” You end up not doing it. “Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” Do that reading or assignment today; do not push it till the next day.

EXAMINATION DAY

11. Lateness
Not only does late coming to the exam hall make you disorganized, it makes you feel like you have missed out on some very vital things. Imagine you having a 2hour exam by 8:00am, you arrived the exam hall by 8:45am, you have the following to do: Explain yourself to the supervisor the reasons for coming late, locate your seat, collect your question paper and answer sheet and try to put yourself in one piece. You have just wasted more minutes. Now your brain have to do two things at a time: answer the question and calm your nerves. You end up writing poorly under a very short time.

12. Incomplete Materials
Incomplete materials in the exam hall are also one of the reasons why students fail exam. A student going for a calculation based exam without a calculator or a technical drawing exam without a pencil or ruler. How will he or she pass?

13. Not Heeding Instructions:
Failure to follow instructions in an examination hall would be your own undoing. Don’t start when you are not asked to, shade properly where necessary, stop when you are asked to, read the instructions given carefully and answer according to the number of questions you are asked to answer, submit at the appropriate time and place.

14. Time Wasting
If you have 60 minutes to answer 60 questions and you spend 2 minutes on each question. Mathematically, you will only answer just 30 questions and that spells failure.

15. Exam Malpractice
Even if this looks like a shortcut to success, if you are caught in the act, your papers would be canceled and you can also end up behind bars. If you attempt cheating in an exam hall and in one way or the other, you didn’t succeed; then you won’t be able to write your papers successfully because you already cast your hope on cheating and it never worked out.

Hope you found that helpful! All we can do at this point is to wish you all the best in all your exams to come.

Credit: StudentCosmos