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JAMB Releases Guidelines For Varsity Admission by johnisrael: 4:52pm On Jul 05, 2016
The Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB) on
Monday announced its
guidelines for admission
process.
Its announcement through its
website followed a week long
meeting with universities and
other tertiary institutions in
the country.
According to the board, the
modalities would be based on
point system.
The board, which explained
how the admission process
would work for JAMB
candidates and direct-entry
applicants, also stated that
varsities would collect
screening fees from
candidates at the end of
admission process.
According to the board, the
new method uses a point
system, which is divided into
other processes, that is easy to
understand.
“Before a candidate can be
considered for screening, he/
she must have been given
provisional admission by JAMB.
The JAMB admission checker
portal is going to be opened
soon for this process, so
praying is all you can do now,”
the statement on JAMB’s
website said.
The second process, the board
said, was the point system
where admission would
depend on the point tally of
the candidate.
It said: “JAMB’s provisional
admission no longer makes
much sense this year, your
points tally will decide your
faith.
“The points are evenly spread
out between your O’level and
JAMB results to provide a level
playing field for all.
“In the first case, any
candidate who submits only
one result which contains his/
her relevant subjects already
has 10 points, the exam could
be NECO, WAEC, GCE etc, but any
candidate who has two
sittings only gets two points.
So, this means that aspirants
with only one result are at an
advantage but only just.”
The board explained that the
next point grades fell into the
O’level grades where each
grade has it’s equivalent point;
A6 marks, B4 marks, C3 marks.
So, the better the candidate’s
grades, the better his/her
chances of securing admission
this year.
The next point is the UTME
scores where each score range
has its equivalent point which
can be summarised thus: 180
– 200 (or 20 – 23 marks); 200
– 250 (or 24 – 33 points); 251
– 300 (or 34 – 43); 300 – 400
(or 44 – 60 points).
Giving a breakdown, JAMB
explained that each categories
contains five JAMB results per
point added.
For instance, a candidate with
180 – 185 gets 20 points, a
candidate with 186 – 190 gets
21 points, adding that the
point system for direct entry
will be released soon.
The board stated that fees
would still be charged for
screening which has replaced
the Post UTME.
“It then comes down to the
fact that fees will still be
charged for screening, it
depends on the school as
well,” the statement said.
It also disclosed that
catchment and ELDS will still be
used!
“Merit contains 45 per cent of
the total candidates for a
particular course, catchment
contains 35 per cent and ELDS
and staff lists contains the rest.
“Cut off marks will be released
by schools this year in the form
of points and not marks. If a
school declares it’s cut-off
mark for Medicine as 90 points
and JAMB grants a candidate
with 250 a provisional
admission but his/her total
points falls short of the 90
points, then he/she will lose
the admission. So, the
provisional admission is just a
means to an end, not the end
in itself,” the statement added.

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