The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has
announced the release of its guidelines for the 2016
admissions’ process.
The method, described as the point system option, was
adopted after an extensive one-week meeting JAMB had
with universities and other tertiary institutions’
administrators in the country.
According to the guidelines contained in a statement
placed on its website on Monday night, JAMB said that
the modalities were going to be based on point system.
While explaining how the admission process would work
for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates
and direct entry students, the organisation stated that
universities were going to charge fees for screening of
candidates at the end of the process for admission.
According to JAMB, the new method uses a point system
to offer provisional admission to candidates.
“Before a candidate can be considered for screening, he/
she must have been offered a 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,” JAMB said.
The second process, it said, was the point system where
admission would depend on the point tally of the
candidate.
The statement 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, WASSCE, November/
December WASSCE etc, but any candidate who has two
sittings only gets 2 points. So this means that candidates
with only one result are at an advantage but only just.”
The organisation added that the “next point grades fell
into the O’ Level grades where each grade would have it
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.
“The next point is the UTME scores where each score
range has its equivalent point which can be summarised
thus, 180-200=20-23 marks,
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