The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it did not fix the tertiary institutions minimum admission cut-off marks, contrary to reports. JAMB had announced that minimum cut-off marks for the university degree for the 2017 academic year be put at 120, Polytechnics and Monotechnics at 100.

The body said the decision was a collective decision of stakeholders in the education sector.

JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede while speaking on Wednesday said the cut-off marks was a unanimous agreement between stakeholders.

Oloyede said the decision will not reduce the quality of education as feared by Nigerians. He added that individual institutions could raise their admission benchmark higher but not above 180 and below 120 for universities.

“With this decision, universities are not to go below the minimum 120 cut-off points adopted by the meeting for admissions,” he said.

“What JAMB did was a recommendation,we only determined the minimum, whatever the various institutions determine as their admission cut-off mark is their decisions. The Senate and academic boards of universities should be allowed to determine their cut-off marks.“


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A decision which jamb agreed to ......kiss school good night n go to bed kids it is finished ....go n learn programming my two cent

Some people will still not understand what he is trying to say. Focus on your school cut off mark and forget the minimum cut off mark jamb recommended. Those who scored below 180 would be silly to go purchase fed universities p utme forms

Those scores are damn too low...

Meaning jamb cut off point is completely useless.

Chinua Achebe must have been a prophet and had the future in mind when he wrote "Things Fall Apart".

Schools should fix their own cut-off marks

I don't know why Nigerians have been complaining about this cut-off mark thing. It was done to reinforce the autonomy of universities but be rest assured that each university would determine it's own individual cut off across different disciplines and it can't be less than 170 in most cases.

I call the jamb cut off mark the best publicly announced scam in Nigeria, it's better than MMM, "tell the stupid Nigerians that scored 120-170 so they can buy post utme form to raise money for universities, so ASUU can leave us alone" 120-170 ll not get admitted to university