JAMB HAS REDUCED
2013 CUT OFF MARK
TO 170 I believe
those that scored
above 170 but below
180 will read this post with lovely
smile. There will be
no admission for
candidates who
scored less than 170
in th last Universities Matriculation
Examination (UME)
following the
decision of the Joint
Committee on
Admission to peg the National cut-off point
at 170. However,
JAMB said yesterday
that results of 16,000
candidates out of the
22,395 candidates earlier withheld on
account of
examination
malpractices have
now been released.
Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB,
Prof. Dibu Ojerinde,
told journalists in
Abuja on Tuesday
that the national cut-
off points was jacked up from 180 last year
to 170 this year to
reflect the
improvement in the
performances of
candidates in the last examination. He,
however, expressed
concern that some
states would not be
able to fill their quota
of university admission in the
coming academic
year even if the cut
off marks was to be
reduced to 150. He
said he had asked the various degree-
awarding institutions
to adopt a system of
differential cut-off
marks in order to
bridge the gap between
educationally less
developed states and
the others. The JAMB
registrar said the
differential cut-off marks for the states
which will be lower
than the national one
were yet to be
decided upon by the
relevant body, adding that in
arriving at a decision,
the body would take
into consideration
how many
candidates sat for the examination in such
state and the
performances of the
candidates. Ojerinde
explained that in a
situation where a particular state
presented only 731
candidates for the
UME, there was no
way such a state
could meet its admission quota,
even if it was given a
differential cut-off
marks, adding that
“it’s a way of
bridging the gap.” He also disclosed that
additional 16000
results out of the 22,
395 earlier declared
withheld by JAMB on
account of examination
malpractice had now
been released
following the
decision of the
relevant committee of the board to
release the results.
He, however, said
those whose results
are yet to be released
will not get any result as the
committee had
decided that the
results be cancelled.
Similarly, Ojerinde
said 6,000 scripts could not be scanned
by the computer
following the
inability of the
students to comply
with relevant instructions on
shading of the
answer sheets. He
regretted that
parents have been
besieging his office seeking for
explanation for the
non-release of their
wards’ results, and
warned that parents
should not visit the sins of their children
on JAMB.According to
him, JAMB will now
have to charge
N25,000 to the
production of the answer script of any
candidate who insists
on seeing it. “This
particular script is like
an art work and the
candidate wants result. You can’t reap
where you did not
sow, shading the
correct column is part
of the examination,”
Ojerinde said, while producing the script
of a candidate.

[color=#000099][/color][i][/i]mtcheeeeeeeeeeeew......why not reduce it up to 160

:-> abeg where source now

Source pls