Junwo:
For this life , who pass you pass you.

StOla:


Zamfara should keep retaining their admissions quota in the unity school system. No unity school can promote a student that did not pass.

Or is there a quota for promotion from one class to another in the unity school system? Only admissions have quota, not promotion/progression within the system.

The low score is a function of educational backwardness that the state governments do not care to address enough.

What about their state public schools? Have you considered how terribly low the entry requirements and even promotion would be?

Even with all of these, those educationally poor states do not fulfill all their guaranteed slots in the unity school system, which then fall back to other students from other states.

Jayokey:
Nigeria is not a country

Brendaniel:


And your solution is to encourage them to keep scoring 2 to gain admission ?

SonofLagos:
why are you surprised? That’s the hypocrisy of an average flatty we talk about…they think northerners are fools

slivertongue:
my state's requirement is fair. But the score for Anambra show they are academically more capable than other States

onumadu:
You see Anambra at 139, yet you also see some "Nigerians" in Nairaland saying that Peter Obi will never be allowed to become president of Nigeria.
Isn't that the clearest proof that Nigeria is cursed somehow?

StOla:
Straight answer is quota.

Every state has a quota, so whatever it takes to fill that quota versus the scores of the students from that state, is what you see as cut off mark.

No state has cheated another state. All have only fulfilled their respective quotas to benefit from the subsidised education that the federal government is providing to aid their unity objective of those Unity Schools.

It is not by force to attend a unity school which does not even constitute 5% of all the secondary schools in Nigeria.

Unity School system is a post civil war programme of the federal government to engender harmony and unity in Nigerian children.

I did not attend a unity secondary school and I made it in life.

That I did not enjoy the subsidised secondary education provided by Unity Schools, does not mean I did not enjoy the heavily subsidised public tertiary education that Nigeria provided that landed me a job in a multinational firm.

For that, I am grateful and free of student loans my foreign counterparts are paying.

Mindlog:
My eldest sister scored 543 when it was over 600 and Imo state had the highest cut off mark of 527 back then.

She passed the subsequent interview but was not given admission to her first choice of Queens College, Lagos nor her second choice FGC Ijanikin as my parents wanted her to remain in Lagos....dem post am go FGC Sokoto but her classmate from Kaduna who scored less than 450 got admitted into Queens College...my parents said thunder fire Federal Ministry of Education and refused the admission, got my sister enrolled in a day secondary school in Lagos 😂😂😂

Orch1981:

See mumu peter obi is a made man till forever you and your northerners wey never eat well na him I dey pity for
Black wey them want remove from hole he use him hand dey cover the hole

LOVEALAIGBO:


And the funny thing is, had the so called 'educationally disadvantaged' ones been 'advantaged', they would have devised a way to corner more from the federation account for states doing well in education.....kinda like they sneakily did with population and landmass!

StOla:


I will never support quota system in anything else except the Unity School system.

If you understand that the objective of the unity school is to always have a diverse mixture together and all enjoying subsidised education, then you will appreciate why it is a quota based system.

Otherwise, quota does not allow for the best.

Unity school is not for the best, it is for unity in diversity.

I used to know about some federal government school for the gifted.

That type of school should have no quota system to recruit students of diverse ethnicities, but a single system of recruiting only the exceptionally gifted students, regardless of which part of the country they originate from.

Brendaniel:


Listen to yourself, no one is asking for that, what we are saying is give an equitable competitive system, the quota system has failed and still failing, it is not helping the northerners at all and the country....

It is making them to lag academically and other developments which is affecting the country....

adanny01:


So your sister lives in Lagos and probably from the South West and you expected Queens college to be easy?

Do you even know what Unity school is? Do you know the aims and objectives of the schools.

I am above 40, even before this age I correct and lecture my parents on things they don't know or are wrong about.

If your parents don't understand, you should try to understand and let them know it's expected.

Let me tell you the most difficult admission to get, it is more difficult to get a unity school in your own state. It's by design.

Just because Queens college is in Lagos doesn't mean they will fill it up with people from Lagos.

nedu666:
In yobe boy needs 2 points, while a girl needs 27 points

In Taraba boy needs 3 points, girl needs 11.

In sokoto boy needs 9 points, girl needs 13

In kebbi boy needs 9 points, girl needs 20 points

Are the boys not supposed to need more points than the girls.

Richtaiwo:

When you finally get your biafra, you can ignore any part that is disadvantaged in any form. But in Nigeria, the national resources can't be concentrated in the training of a singl section who claim they are not even Nigerians. Unity Schools are for the benefit of all Nigerians. If you don't like it, nobody is forcing you.

HarunaWest:
When I wrote my common entrance exam, I came 3rd in Alimosho Local Government back then, I actually selected FGC Ijankikan and I was granted the admission, however regimental life called me. I feel your sis was just unfortunate, most of my peeps then got the schools they selected.

Mindlog:


We are from Imo state

osazsky:
Cut off marks ABI numbers of students dat enrolled per state..the op that posted this can't score 1 in this exam if he can't comprehend dat list

adanny01:


Just like NYSC, you are not meant to be posted to where you are from, where both parents are from, where you lived or schooled, or where you have visited and spent considerable time.

You are meant to go to a strange place.

Living in Lagos reduced your sister's chances. The experience is better appreciated by an Imo indigene who doesn't have family in Lagos.

When she applied, using a Lagos address alone will make it difficult for her.

Celense:
Why not treat everybody equally? I'm not surprised......

Jokerman:
The cut of marks for pupils seeking to get admission into Federal secondary schools recently released shows a disparity in cut off marks.

Why will someone from Anambra need to score as high as 139, and someone in Yobe need to score 2?

Or why will someone in Lagos need to score 133 and another from Kebbi need to score 9 to gain admission??