Carry overs in FUTO is normal; it
basically means a student has an
unfinished business. A student can
only carry over a course when he or
she scores 39 downward in both C.A
and exam (over 100).
Carry overs are not in all cases a
real reflection of how intelligent or
not intelligent a student is, rather
it’s a reflection of how unserious,
unsmart (if that word exist),
unchecked and uninterested a
student is.
I have seen highly intelligent
students have numerous carry overs
and relatively dull students pass
through without
carry overs. Such is life, that’s why a
coin is two sided. Carry over can
also be a result of unfortunate and
unlucky
incidents, such as missing scripts,
lecturer’s attitude towards marking
your script, or even a student’s
handwriting (that’s right).
I have once been a victim of an
unlucky situation. I was not around
Imo State when an assignment
worth 20 marks was been submitted,
when I heard about it I quickly
rushed back to school from Eziobodo
to get mine submitted. Unluckily for
me, the lecturer in charge of the
course is very strict and sent me out
of his office. I thought to myself,” I
still have 80 marks to fight for so
why panic”. This lecturer is the kind
that barely comes to class, but he
gave us a material to read ahead of
his exam. For most part of Monday
evenings we’ll wait in class
expecting him to come to class but
he never does. On the day I decided
I wasn’t going to wait in class for
him, he showed up in class and
seeing how scanty the class was he
decided to conduct test with the little
number of students in class.
The test was for 20 marks and I
missed it, making it 40 marks missed
already which ruled me out of
contention to score an A. Words
can’t describe how devastated I was
during this period, my worst fear of
carrying over a course is lurking
around me. I tried bottling my
sadness and fear until the lecturer
announced that marks will deducted
for every undotted Is and uncrossed
Ts in his exam, he was basically
asking for a perfectly written error
free exam which looked impossible
under the sort of pressure we were
in.
I prayed to God about the situation,
focused a little bit more on that
course than the others, did a whole
lot of library
work and research and when the
exam came around I completely
smashed it, narrowly escaping a
carryover (which many of my mates
had) that would have completely
changed the dynamics of my
academics. Am still grateful to God
till today, who knows what it might
have been….
Reasons why you must completely
avoid carry overs in FUTO:
-It brings you down ;
A) Academically: having carry-over
means u have F (0) in that course.
It’s bad, it’s really bad. Havn an E(2)
or a D(4) is far better than having a
carryover. It means you just scored
0 after studying a course for a
semester and it will definitely reflect
on ur result.
B) Psychologically: havn a carryova
affects the psyche of a student. It’s
that evil. You don’t feel whole again,
you
won’t feel yourself among your
peers anymore; you’ll feel
devastated, less intelligent, less
smart and so on. Carry
overs inflict serious psychological
damage on the bearer. It brings your
thinking and psyche to the lowest
minimum.
C) Physically: keepn tabs with your
main courses is physically tasking
enough, add carry overs to that and
you’ll
barely sleep at night. You have to
meet up wit the time table of your
main courses, then meet up with the
schedule of your carry over courses,
that’s so physically demanding, it’s
almost like punishment.
-It’s hard to recover: even though its
technically possible to recover from
the evils of carry overs and get your
academics back on track, it’s
extremely difficult and take so much
determination and hard work.
-The odds aren’t favourable: the odds
of you graduating with a great result
or a good result shifts every time
you
carry over a course. Imagine doing a
carry-over course in place of an easy
to pass elective course…
– It leads to self-esteem issues: when
you are writing a paper with guys
that are below you, it’s a hard hit
on your esteem and confidence level.
You certainly won’t be the most
confident person on campus, in fact
you’ll be the least confident, if
you’re not then its either you’re
shameless, delusional, dull or
completely out of touch.
– It’s a bad experience all together: the
demanding schedule, the insult by
lecturers, the embarrassment of
writing a carry-over exam with your
“juniors”…it’s a bad experience all
together.
How To Avoid A Carry Over:
-Never joke with your Continuous
Assessment C.A
-Always be around class and get
adequately informed
-Serious studying: studying isn’t
every one’s bread and butter, not
everyone enjoys reading and
reading, it’s not sweet at all, but you
got to do it. That’s the way. Use the
library to research helpful
information as much as you can.
-Do your calculations: your GPA and
stuffs
-Always add to what you know
-Always do the conventional first: do
what’s required of you in test or an
exam first, and then spice it up with
the result of your research to the
lecturers delight.
-Be strong physically and
psychologically: in FUTO only the
strong will survive
-Use your time and work with
schedule
-And finally and most importantly…
Know your God…
Written by Fredteam
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