The reappointed registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede has revealed that a total of 1,456 candidates who scored 300 and above out of the possible score of 400 in the 2020 UTME were unable to secure admission.

He made this known at the 2021 admission policy meeting where he disclosed that only 3,492 out of the 4,948 applicants who scored 300 and above have gained admissions into higher institutions.

According to a report by [url=rnn.ng/jamb-2019-679-candidates-scored-above-300-but-not-offered-admission-see-reasons]rnn.ng[/url], there is a significant increase as compared to 2019 UTME where 679 students who scored 300 and above were not offered admission.

Giving reasons why candidates who scored high marks were not offered admission, Oloyede highlighted wrong O’level subject combination; low post-UTME screening score; wrong UTME subject combination, and failure to accept admission offer.

He further stated that some candidates are denied admission due to multiple applications, failure to register or absence from post-UTME screening, mismatch of catchment institutions, and failure to upload O’level to JAMB portal or Post UTME Screening Portal.

Interestingly, 1,085 of the 1,456 candidates who scored 300 and above but were denied admission applied to study Medicine.

However, JAMB faulted that the reason some of them were denied admission was that they failed to include Mathematics in their UTME subject combination.

Meanwhile, JAMB revealed that only about 551,553 candidates have been offered admissions out of the 925,762 quotas that were allocated for admissions for the 2020/21 academic session. There is hope that the figure would increase before the end of the 2020 admission process on October 29.

Prodigal fathers: schoolls are not enough. Two years ago about 6,000 candidates applied for UI Medicine, only 145 admitted. Ekiti State's University has only 45 for medicine among others. Doctors are not enough, mistreatment makes the few to seek greener pastures. Children aspiring to become doctors are frustrated.


Only God will judge these prodigal fathers called leaders.