Earlyface

Many students or candidates for scholarship exams do not know that the body giving out the scholarship award and that which organizes the exams in most cases are entirely different.

The Awarding body gives the contract of recruiting the students who merit the scholarship into the scheme to these scholarship organizers. The Organizers after they have conducted the exams and screened to have the meritorious candidates, submit the list to the awarding company for disbursing of the money involved in such scholarships.
In Nigeria, there three major organizers of undergraduate scholarships exams viz:
Dragnets Solutions:
Dragnets Solutions is recruitment firm. It runs a scholarship portal very popular among Nigerian Students www.scholastica.ng

Dragnet administers Computer Based Test (CBT) which is majorly Verbal, Numerical and Abstract Reasoning.

Dragnets organize the following scholarship exams:

1. Agbami Medical and Engineering Professional Scholarship

2. Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) scholarship

3. NNPC/Chevron Scholarship

Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB):
JAMB is well known for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) but they also get the contract to organize scholarship exams fr a number of awarding companies

JAMB organized exams always come with Logical Reasoning, Lexis and Structure, General Curent Affairs, Basic knowledge of Information Technology, Mathematics mainly basic maths etc.

JAMB organizes the following exams:

1. MTN Foundation Science and Technology Scholarship

2. Federal Government Bilateral Scholarship to study abroad

3. Federal Government Scholarship exam

4. PTDF Undergraduate scholarship.

5. ABC transport Scholarship

West African Examination Council (WAEC):
Obvious WAEC is mainly known for West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). But same WAEC is the biggest organizers of scholarship exams.

Scholarship exams organized by WAEC contains Logical Reasoning, Analogy, Synonyms and Antonyms, semantics in general, current affairs, mathematics Questions on government, transport system, economics etc

Scholarship exams organized by WAEC include the following

1. NLNG

2. Total E&P Scholarship

3. NNPC/ADDAX Scholarship

4. SPDC Shell Petroleum Development Company) Scholarship

5. SNEPCo

It is important to note that Dragnet through Scholastica can select students and shortlist for exams while the other bodies conduct the exams.

One thing common to all the scholarship exams organized by all these bodies is time constraint.