The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday announced the release of its guidelines for admission process this year.
The announcement followed a week of meeting with universities and other tertiary institutions in Nigeria.
Announcing the guidelines on its website, the board said that the modalities was going to be based on point system. Read the following below to get yourselves prepared

1. The board, which explained how the admission process would work for JAMB candidates and Direct Entry students, also stated that universities were going to charge fees for screening of candidates at the end of the process for admission.

Note: No stipulated charges because the board did not stipulate how much institutions are to charge for this.

2. The second process which is the point system, where admission would depend on the point tally of the candidate.
“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.

Note:“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 2 sittings only gets 2 points. So this means that aspirants with only one result are at an advantage but only just,” the statement said.
The board explained that the next point grades fell into the O’level grades where each grade has it’s equivalent point; A=6 marks, B=4 marks, C=3 marks, so the better the candidates’ grades, the better his or her chances of securing admission this year.

3. The next point is the UTME scores where each score range has its equivalent point which can be summarized thus, 180-200=20-23 marks, 200-250=24-33 points, 251-300=34-43, 300-400=44-60 points.

Note: This means that Universities will formulate a cutoff point/mark which we all know is 180. Then whatever you score as a candidate will give you a point. Lets assume you have '180-185' as your jamb score, then you get 20 points also a candidate with 186-190 will get 21 point. so also a candidate with 200-205 gets 34 points and so on.
Those with High Jamb score have a better chance.

4. It also disclosed that catchment and ELDS (Educationally Less Developed States) will still be used! “Merit contains 45% of the total candidates for a particular course, Catchment contains 35% and ELDS and staff lists contains the rest.

Note: “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.

Read more: http://www.guru9ja.com/2016/07/jamb-admission-screening-procedure.html

Jamb is confuse on admission process......which one is POINT SYSTEM again

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