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Phi001:
Maybe, but I saw her e-transcript, she put only 7 subjects...


She is to be blamed.


If I find it again, I'll modify...


Modified:

daneni1:
Go over it again and see that physics was posted twice.

eAlbum:
Mr provost Sir,
Please do the maths again and make the necessary corrections.
Then reach out to her asap with an admission letter.

From your equation, she scored 79 instead of what you presented!

thinkative:
regarding the ranking. she ranked 103 among the jambites. 100 students were admitted in all for medicine. but those 100 were not all jambites. direct entry admissions were included. ur logic here does not take the direct entries into consideration.

and I don't think its nice to call the provost names. he should be applauded for showing concern (if its really is true that the reply is from him). most university dons I know wouldn't care a hoot cos they know there's nothing anyone can do about it in this Godforsaken country!

jeff1607:
e be like say mmm do u strong tin o bros.


na letter H dey there oooo, make I type am again

H M M M M M M M

Kendzyma:
This is coming from a nairalander with d Monika Adesegunfat


My name is Adesegun Fatusi, and I am the Provost of the College of Health Sciences, OAU, Ile-Ife. The case of the Aror Oghenerukewve has just been brought to my notice. To throw more light on her case, I will present the detaild fact here.

With a score of 320, her mark from UTME amounts to 80% (i.e. 320/400 x 100)
Her school cert results are: English A1 (=8 marks); Biology C4 (=5 marks); Chemistry B3 (=6 marks); Maths B3 (=6 marks); Physics C4 (=5 marks); Physics C4 (=5 marks); Further Maths B2 (=7marks), and Civic Educ A1 (=8 marks). That gives her 45 points, or 70.3% (i.e. 44/64x100)

So her overall average - as OAU did a combination of 50% mark from JAMB and 50% mark from School Cert - is: (80+70.3)=75.15% (which we rounded up to 75.2%).

With that mark, she ranks number 103 on the list of the students who took Medicine as first Choice.

The total admission quota for Medicine in OAU is 100, and that includes UTME and Direct Entry).

Clearly although Aror did well, her mark was NOT good enough to earn her admission on merit to read Medicine in Ife. Her mark of 75.2% is clearly below our cut-off mark (which was initially 78%, but we later reduced to 77.7%). Between her mark of 75.2% and 77.7%, by the way, there were 56 other candidates who scored higher than her but did not make the cut-off. For example, two people had 77.6%, two other people had 77.5%, four people had 77.4% etc.
Having presented the detailed facts about Aror's case, let me also help the many young Nigerians who may be accessing this site with more information on admission as I see a lot of misrepresentation, falsehood, and misunderstanding from the comments that various people had made on this case.

1. Admission into Nigerian Universities are considered on three grounds based on the nationally specified criteria (which I think ought to be reviewed now, by the way):
A. Merit =45% (This covers all candidates from the country - and it is automatic admission once you meet the cut-off mark)
B. Catchment = 35% (this refers to those in the states specified as catchment area for each University: For OAU, that is Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti)
C. Educationally disadvantaged states (ELDS)=20% = This refers to all the 19 Northern States, and Ebonyi, Rivers and Bayelsa.

So, someone from Delta such as Aror with 75.2% will not get admission into Medicine in OAU automatically as she is only considered on merit criterion and she does NOT meet the specified cut-off, but someone with the same mark from Kwara (which is in the North Central zone) may get automatic admission with the same mark based on the consideration of ELDS if 75.2% is the specified cut-off for ELDS for Medicine.

2. When a candidate chooses a highly competitive course like Medicine in a top-rated University like OAU, the competition is very intense. Believe it or not, many of the candidates that made our merit mark had an average of six A1s in school cert coupled with very high UTME mark (above 300). So, a candidate must carefully think over his choice of course and university. For example, if Aror had chosen ANY other course as her first choice for OAU, whe would have made the merit mark and gotten automatic admission, and she would have made the merit mark for Medicine on merit for most Nigerian universities too (but NOT OAU unfortunately).

3. Because of the high demand and competition for very limited spaces, the College of Health Sciences does not consider second choices as a general rule. OAU, for example, was only able to offer admission on UTME platform (Merit + Catchment + ELDS) to less than 3% of her applicants for Medicine, and less than 2% of her applicants for Nursing Science this year.

4. For cases like Aror where the candidadte has made a high mark but does not make the cut-off, what the candidate can sometimes do is to come to the University and try and see if he or she can be considered for other courses. A candidadte DOES NOT get considered automatically for a course she has not applied to in JAMB. A candidadte is ONLY automatically considered for the course he or she has applied for with respect to a particular university.

Unfortunately, Aror has left her case too late as all admission lists have been submitted for this year.
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Source:https://www.nairaland.com/3532584/girl-laments-over-inability-secure/4

habtund:
Rubbish..... I was also denied admission last year despite having 62% in d post DE exam, distinction n 6 bs n 3 C's in my o level
but a frnd of mine wit upper credit, c parallel in her o level n 55% was admitted ....same course
Alhamdulillah I av bn offered admission in funaab to study statistics

domido:
U no understand I no see H na mmm me dey see. Anyways, I dey look.

Josephnice:
I don't just buy into this vague calculus theorem of the so called provost to denying this girl her admission. Lecturers are so smart in formulating excuses in cover up of their partiality. Whichever way u solve the equation, this girl deserve a place in the merit list or if it result to worse, she should have been given a relative courses that are not so competitive to choose from. How can someone who scored 320 in jamb walk home empty handed and not even with her second chosen course(dentistry)

INTERMAN:
She is currently in department of medical rehab, part one, OAU, i know her. She was careless with her admission, because i dont know what it would have taken her to take one to two steps into the office of the provost or dean to seek assistance all these while!. Chai seun imagine

INTERMAN:
shut up! Is she the only one who will be denied admission after scoring high mark. She has to try again. She is not the first to try again. Other people have faced similar challenge too in time past. Besides, this gal is currently a med rehab student in OAU. sHE SHOULD HAVE known about OAU admission processings better.

INTERMAN:
shut up! Is she the only one who will be denied admission after scoring high mark. She has to try again. She is not the first to try again. Other people have faced similar challenge too in time past. Besides, this gal is currently a med rehab student in OAU. sHE SHOULD HAVE known about OAU admission processings better.

INTERMAN:
shut up! Is she the only one who will be denied admission after scoring high mark. She has to try again. She is not the first to try again. Other people have faced similar challenge too in time past. Besides, this gal is currently a med rehab student in OAU. sHE SHOULD HAVE known about OAU admission processings better.

mtto:
Her OL is actually better than that. She attached a copy to her original post. Please find it and check.
The girls has 3 A1s, 4 Bs and 2 C4s.

The professor wrote nonsense and calculated nonsense for her.

There is God ooo

DonLo:
Some Nigerians like talking with sentiments.. You think Medicine in a top rated school like OAU comes easily as you think. She scored high but there must have been some other person with higher scores more deserving of the admission. Instead of attacking the provost who took his time to explain please advocate for the return of post utme and the stop of all this catchment areas come educational disadvantaged areas. If there had been post UTME others that deserves it less would have been sieved out.

God bless the Provost. He was really willing to help when I called is attention to it yesterday. But it was just too late.

baum1:
No, but you must also take the last course and earn a ZERO=F for the course to be used to divide your GPA. We have all seen instances where people in the same class did different number of courses...Some did 7, some did 8 and some did 9..If you divide the GPA of someone that did 7 by 8 or 8 by nine, you would be assuming they did the additional course and failed, and that is wrong.

There is definitely an issue with what IFE has done. I cannot see why there is no issue. They have assumed the girl took the 8th subject and failed and hence they divided by 8. That is wrong! If anything, the computation should be based on 5 relevant subjects because this is what I suppose JAMB explicitly has in its brochure...

EhisChelsea1:
*I took the pain to go through her result and the analysis done by the PROVOST and I discover a lot of discrepancy. Either the PROVOST is desperately trying to cover up something, or he doesn't know simple calculations or both....
Her O'level result:
Civil Education A1 = 8 marks
English A1 = 8 marks
further Maths B2 = 7 marks
Maths B3 = 6 marks
Biology C4 = 5 marks
Chemistry B3 = 6 marks
Physics C4 = 5marks
Computer A1 = 8 marks
Painting & Dec B3 = 6 marks

Total = 59 marks / 72× 100 = 81.94
Add this to her jamb which d provost says is 80 marks and u have
81.94+80 = 161.94
50% of 161.94 = 82%.

Her total score is 81% and not 75.31 % as stated by the PROVOST*

MaziOmenuko:
What concerned Further Maths with Medicine? The prof included further maths score of B2 for her and left out Computer Studies of A1, is that not voluntary wikedness? Then xometed his computation with Physics being repeated twice, why did they neglect her Computer Studies score of A1?

Transparency my left ball!

BraniacX:
She's already a student in the system and was just bidding her time to get her preferred course

That F would've disqualified her from applying and she knows that too, like i said, she's already a student in ife and as such no stranger to the admission process and requirements

baum1:
Even if she submitted only 7 subjects but submitted more than the required 5 o'level subjects as required by JAMB, she would have to make an F in the 8th subject for it to be used to compute her overall O'level GPA. I have told that to OGA pHi001 and even used example of real university courses.

BraniacX:
No, but her submitting nly seven subjects has not been proven

BraniacX:
And whose word do we take for it that she submitted only seven?

baum1:
So IFE also assumed she made an F in the last subject and hence they used it to compute her O'level GPA? No?

See my above post to Phi001.

The admission process has lots of weaknesses and loopholes and I say this with all due respect to the respectable people in charge

Kendzyma:
This is coming from a nairalander with d Monika Adesegunfat


My name is Adesegun Fatusi, and I am the Provost of the College of Health Sciences, OAU, Ile-Ife. The case of the Aror Oghenerukewve has just been brought to my notice. To throw more light on her case, I will present the detaild fact here.

With a score of 320, her mark from UTME amounts to 80% (i.e. 320/400 x 100)
Her school cert results are: English A1 (=8 marks); Biology C4 (=5 marks); Chemistry B3 (=6 marks); Maths B3 (=6 marks); Physics C4 (=5 marks); Physics C4 (=5 marks); Further Maths B2 (=7marks), and Civic Educ A1 (=8 marks). That gives her 45 points, or 70.3% (i.e. 44/64x100)

So her overall average - as OAU did a combination of 50% mark from JAMB and 50% mark from School Cert - is: (80+70.3)=75.15% (which we rounded up to 75.2%).

With that mark, she ranks number 103 on the list of the students who took Medicine as first Choice.

The total admission quota for Medicine in OAU is 100, and that includes UTME and Direct Entry).

Clearly although Aror did well, her mark was NOT good enough to earn her admission on merit to read Medicine in Ife. Her mark of 75.2% is clearly below our cut-off mark (which was initially 78%, but we later reduced to 77.7%). Between her mark of 75.2% and 77.7%, by the way, there were 56 other candidates who scored higher than her but did not make the cut-off. For example, two people had 77.6%, two other people had 77.5%, four people had 77.4% etc.
Having presented the detailed facts about Aror's case, let me also help the many young Nigerians who may be accessing this site with more information on admission as I see a lot of misrepresentation, falsehood, and misunderstanding from the comments that various people had made on this case.

1. Admission into Nigerian Universities are considered on three grounds based on the nationally specified criteria (which I think ought to be reviewed now, by the way):
A. Merit =45% (This covers all candidates from the country - and it is automatic admission once you meet the cut-off mark)
B. Catchment = 35% (this refers to those in the states specified as catchment area for each University: For OAU, that is Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Oyo, Osun and Ekiti)
C. Educationally disadvantaged states (ELDS)=20% = This refers to all the 19 Northern States, and Ebonyi, Rivers and Bayelsa.

So, someone from Delta such as Aror with 75.2% will not get admission into Medicine in OAU automatically as she is only considered on merit criterion and she does NOT meet the specified cut-off, but someone with the same mark from Kwara (which is in the North Central zone) may get automatic admission with the same mark based on the consideration of ELDS if 75.2% is the specified cut-off for ELDS for Medicine.

2. When a candidate chooses a highly competitive course like Medicine in a top-rated University like OAU, the competition is very intense. Believe it or not, many of the candidates that made our merit mark had an average of six A1s in school cert coupled with very high UTME mark (above 300). So, a candidate must carefully think over his choice of course and university. For example, if Aror had chosen ANY other course as her first choice for OAU, whe would have made the merit mark and gotten automatic admission, and she would have made the merit mark for Medicine on merit for most Nigerian universities too (but NOT OAU unfortunately).

3. Because of the high demand and competition for very limited spaces, the College of Health Sciences does not consider second choices as a general rule. OAU, for example, was only able to offer admission on UTME platform (Merit + Catchment + ELDS) to less than 3% of her applicants for Medicine, and less than 2% of her applicants for Nursing Science this year.

4. For cases like Aror where the candidadte has made a high mark but does not make the cut-off, what the candidate can sometimes do is to come to the University and try and see if he or she can be considered for other courses. A candidadte DOES NOT get considered automatically for a course she has not applied to in JAMB. A candidadte is ONLY automatically considered for the course he or she has applied for with respect to a particular university.

Unfortunately, Aror has left her case too late as all admission lists have been submitted for this year.
...
Source:https://www.nairaland.com/3532584/girl-laments-over-inability-secure/4

seguno2:
Before we agree with your rubbish label, do you mind telling us the state of origin for your friend and your own state.
Thanks.

DonLo:
Some Nigerians like talking with sentiments.. You think Medicine in a top rated school like OAU comes easily as you think. She scored high but there must have been some other person with higher scores more deserving of the admission. Instead of attacking the provost who took his time to explain please advocate for the return of post utme and the stop of all this catchment areas come educational disadvantaged areas. If there had been post UTME others that deserves it less would have been sieved out.

God bless the Provost. He was really willing to help when I called is attention to it yesterday. But it was just too late.

Mister2:
Something I do not understand; she ranked 103 and 100 candidates were admitted... there are 56 other candidates ahead of her who didn't meet the cut-off mark. If 56 candidates scored below the cut-off and also beat her in aggregate scores, how come she missed the list by 3 steps (103-100=3)?

DonLo:
Some Nigerians like talking with sentiments.. You think Medicine in a top rated school like OAU comes easily as you think. She scored high but there must have been some other person with higher scores more deserving of the admission. Instead of attacking the provost who took his time to explain please advocate for the return of post utme and the stop of all this catchment areas come educational disadvantaged areas. If there had been post UTME others that deserves it less would have been sieved out.

God bless the Provost. He was really willing to help when I called is attention to it yesterday. But it was just too late.

baum1:
Hi, it's possible if she is merit based..45% of the admitted 100 were merit based, meaning 45 people were admitted based on merit. If 56 scored higher than her, then she must be number 101th, which is higher than 103..Though I suspect the 103 might be correct due to approximations.

If you disagree, please post. This is serious.

LorDBolton:
read the post again...

This time... SLOWLY

Even during pume era such cases occur, I know someone who was offered fishery instead of medicine n surgery.


Anybody who's been thru the 4 walls of any nigerian university would automatically comprehend what the provost just declared

validstar1:
But it wasn't calculated with her score,why??
The total score there is 50 not 45,calculate it well...Her total score is 79.Why the miscalculation and injustice?

AZeD1:
I don't think there was post UME this year.

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