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The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Babham(m): 4:26pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
THE AFTERMATCH OF THE
CANCELLATION OF POST UTME
EXAMS.
Institutions abide by the FG's "No Post
UTME" rule but made
admissions worse. Aspirants were still made to pay for
screenings not conducted, some were
asked to travel long
distances, risking their lives at extra
expenses, only for
submission of documents, making the reasons for the
abolishment of Post Utme exams to be
utterly defeated in
the first place.
As if those are not enough, institutions
came up with disheartening admission modalities. Some
just released
admission lists after collecting aspirants
money in the name
of admission screening registration. Their
criteria for admissions remained puzzles to many.
Some even released
results with no clear information on how
the results were
arrived at. Some publicized their scoring
systems combining Olevel grades and UTME results of
varying proportions.
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife used
70/30 UTME/Olevel
with two subjects' grades in addition to the
five relevant subjects to the chosen courses of study.
University of Lagos
and University of Ibadan used 50/50
UTME/Olevel with
different styles. All these grading systems
are contrary to the admission guidelines obtainable
atwww.jamb.gov.ng.
The 50/50 scoring system looks just and
fair but it's not. Let's
examine University of Ibadan system
(obtainable from www.ui.edu.ng). A1-6, B2-5, B3-4, C4-3,
C5-2 and C6-1. Five
relevant Olevel subjects are graded and
the total divided by
30, then multiplied by 50 give X. UTME
score divided by 400, multiplied by 50 gives Y. X+Y gives the
aggregate which must
not be less than 50 for a candidate to be
qualified for
admission consideration. Is this actually
50/50? 200 UTME score was advertised as the
minimum score to be
eligible and at least 5 credit passes in
either one or two
sittings depending on course of study. A
candidate with 200 in UTME already has 25/50 in UTME but a
candidate with C6
in all his five required subjects has just
8.3/50 in Olevel.
50/50 indeed! A candidate with C5 in his
five relevant subjects and 250 UTME scores has 47.9
as aggregate which
mean he can't be admitted whereas
another candidate with
B3 in his five relevant subjects and 200
UTME has 58.3 as aggregate and can be admitted. Aspirants
with below credit
in each of five Olevel subjects have 0/50
in Olevel while
aspirants with UTME scores below 200
can score as high as 24.875 on this scoring system.
Candidates with two Olevel
sittings, even though advertised as
allowed, will have the
points scored from the second result
halved before it can be added. Is this justice coming from the
Senate of an ivory
tower?
The above is just one of the various
awkward admission
modalities employed by our tertiary institutions for this
year's admission and yet the Federal
Government, civil
organizations, National Assembly and the
Media had been
silent on this issue affecting about a million of this country's
"future leaders". I call on President
Muhammadu Buhari's
lead administration to see to this as this is
the first
admission that will be fully conducted under the watch of his
government. Is this the change we
deserve in the nation's
admission process?
Kindly let something be done in earnest to
prevent these injustices and impunity. In preparation for
next admission,
there should be a stakeholder's meeting
on admission
process, duly publicized and let each
institution publish her peculiar admission guidelines to enable
students make the
best choices. Not changing the rules
when the game is on.
God bless Nigeria 1 Like |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by braineypraisey(f): 6:19pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
So true, it's unfair since the WAEC examination is not so dependant any longer. There is a very high rate of examination malpractice. The fairest and effective method is the post UTME. If the government wants to cancel an exam, let them cancel UTME. 1 Like |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by xender(m): 6:29pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
Loll...same people who danced at the cancellation of post ume will now wail....I saw this coming and condemned the cancellation but people called for my head. Oya now.. |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Nobody: 10:22pm On Oct 08, 2016 |
Even the previous method was better than this particular one.For example,you can never make MBBS even if you score 300+,since you got Cs,unless you write waec with runs to get As and that won't help our education system.This method should be aborted. It is not helping matters at all.Imagine,someone going back to write waec with runs with hopes of getting As to complement his mark in order to get his choice of course.Isn't that unnecessarily stressful. 1 Like |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Hoejhumhu(m): 12:00am On Oct 09, 2016 |
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Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Babham(m): 8:55am On Oct 12, 2016 |
Too bad |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by firstking01(m): 10:29am On Oct 12, 2016 |
Hmmn |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Fidelismaria: 1:04pm On Oct 12, 2016 |
so true now my brother has bin bugging my parents saying he wants to write neco GCE in a special center |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Tycoonnla(m): 1:15pm On Oct 12, 2016 |
Fidelismaria: my dear tell that brother of yours not to sit for neco gce because no matter how good he is,Neco don't gv out A's and B's let him sit for Waec |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by Fidelismaria: 1:18pm On Oct 12, 2016 |
Tycoonnla: oh had no idea tanx for d advice |
Re: The New Screening Grading System And How It Affect Our Admission Chances by morayo3: 1:42pm On Oct 12, 2016 |
Please any news about LASU SECOND CHOICE? Please |
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