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Officiallyme:
Lol
Bro. I chose medicine not for ego. If it's ego, I'd have given up since. This is my 6th jamb attempt, it's not something to be proud of tho. If I want to be called a doctor, I'd get a PHD degree.

You chose your course and you probably have found joy with it. Medicine to me is the only course I can study that will give me the joy I seek. You don't come and just say things because you feel like saying them. Have a nice day!

all the best then. mind you, medicine isn't the only course in the health sciences. and you shouldn't limit yourself to Nigeria alone. In Nigeria, med doctors seems to be the "only" one in healthcare, they covey the prestige to themselves.
I remember when I was running after medicine, I'm older now amd I can say I was foolish then. Many people with low self esteem felt studying medicine would increase it. some were rejected by girls amd felt studying medicine would make girls respect them. some it's cos of their peers.
I'm talking generally and not attacking you.

vhuqnl:
all the best then. mind you, medicine isn't the only course in the health sciences. and you shouldn't limit yourself to Nigeria alone. In Nigeria, med doctors seems to be the "only" one in healthcare, they covey the prestige to themselves.
I remember when I was running after medicine, I'm older now amd I can say I was foolish then. Many people with low self esteem felt studying medicine would increase it. some were rejected by girls amd felt studying medicine would make girls respect them. some it's cos of their peers.
I'm talking generally and not attacking you.

You are in the health field? Because you just spoke the truth?

Officiallyme:
Lol
Bro. I chose medicine not for ego. If it's ego, I'd have given up since. This is my 6th jamb attempt, it's not something to be proud of tho. If I want to be called a doctor, I'd get a PHD degree.

You chose your course and you probably have found joy with it. Medicine to me is the only course I can study that will give me the joy I seek. You don't come and just say things because you feel like saying them. Have a nice day!

I doubt dude. Most Doctors are there for job security because, Medicine is one of the jobs you can do till you are old and fill fufilled. Goodluck bro. No join do strike ooo

The guy said he is pursuing medicine for the passion, can't someone have passion for Medicine in Nigeria again?.



what you said about chemistry earlier, just know Nigeria is bleeped up...

Martins134:
Not in UNIZIK. Except it is for less competitive courses.

thanks. But are u a student there please?

Martins134:
Not in UNIZIK. Except it is for less competitive courses.

thanks. But are u a student there please?

klose4life:
thanks. But are u a student there please?

Yes

[quote author=Zeeknow3245 post=91024719]Lol Lasu Does it ooo, some schools do it, I swear[/quote hey bros, are u a student in LASU?

vhuqnl:
must you people study medicine? that course is over rated.
some of you are doing it for ego play.

It's overrated and that's your personal opinion..
People have the right to make their choices and stick by them.. There's nothing wrong fighting for what you think will make you feel fulfilled and have high self esteem like you mentioned in your other post and NOTE, this is equally applicable in all spheres of life not only Medicine...What ever prompts one to study medicine is worth it after all because it's borne out of personal conviction...Leave the "overrated'MBBS for us, it's better than not being "rated" at all..Gracias!

klose4life:
Good day everyone here.
please, is it true that I can purchase UNIZIK, Lagos state university or ESUT post utme form meanwhile, I didn't choose them in my jamb and write them. And if my average reach their departmental cut off for the course I applied, they will give me admission.
I intend to write med surg there.
I chose UNICAL in my jamb.

Please someone should help a brother because information is power. I heard that one can write this three institution's post utme without putting them in one's jamb.

Esut allows u to write post utme but they wont give u medicine or any competitive course.

Haustyne:
Esut allows u to write post utme but they wont give u medicine or any competitive course.

do u know about that of unizik and LASU.?

Martins134:
Yes

okay, thanks.

Zeeknow3245:
Yes they do;LASU and EKSU. You can change yes.

please, are u a student at LASU?

Please, I need a contact of someone that is in his/her first year or maybe second year at unical studying med surg.
Their is something I want to ask the person.

horpeyemmi66:
Hello DarkPheonix,

Well done and congratulations on your result. You did great. Always thank God in everything .

I am not so surprised about your Parents kicking against UNIMAID, it's normal given the prevailing circumstances in the country.

No one University is perfect. There are some schools where connections and money run the affairs viz: LAUTECH, UNIJOS, ABU, UNILAG, LASU and UI (covertly).

Now I would pick each of these schools(I know a bit about each one) and talk about them briefly to buttress.

LAUTECH: I was at Ogbomoso some seven years ago for Predegree. When admission time came I began seeing different funny things at the students affairs, because that's where the office of the admissions officer is located. You see several vehicles littered across the car lot that caters for the students affairs building. Pot-bellied lecturers going in and out. Students milling around in their numbers.

I saw deserving students even of Oyo and Osun origin shuffled to funny departments that had no correlation whatsoever with what they applied for from the onset.

I myself was offered crop and environmental protection in lieu of Medicine, when I complained the admissions officer told me blankly "Go and study Medicine in your father's state (Ondo)". I knew someone who applied for Medicine and was offered Fine and Applied art.

People getting whisked from Computer Engineering to Accounting Technology, Marketing and Transport Management. While some students who, if their scores were subtracted from mine, there would still be more than 100 difference got in for Medicine, Nursing and MLS.

LAUTECH was so porous (I don't know about now). I even helped a friend who failed his test that time. I knew one of the student leaders at that time, I explained, he told me to bring 20/25k, (I can't remember which) for upgrade. When the results and admission was released, my guy did well and was even offered Human Anatomy.

UNIJOS: I considered applying here for Dental Surgery but had to take two steps back when I started observing irregularities in their admissions process; I followed UNIJOS aspirants page on Facebook. I saw several people who merited the courses they applied for being offered something totally different. It's bewildering, really.

I have this colleague in Medicine who came from Jos to ABU. He was offered LARIS (Library and Archival Studies) in place of Medicine. Funny enough, a friend of his who he scored more than got Medicine. That school's modalities still baffles me, a lot.

ABU: ABU also has her own fair share of illogicalities, several if you asked me. How else, would one explain why someone with 250 average got Medicine and someone with 286 average was offered Physiology(with connection; I learnt about this much later). Moving a dude I know from Nursing all the way to Home Economics.

ABU also has SBRS (School of Basic and Remedial studies) students (from the 19 Northern states) to satisfy. It's complicated, honestly.

"You have to score the highest from your non-catchment state to be eligible for competitive courses", that statement only but goes so far.

I would say ABU is a matter of God's grace. A friend told me to, quoting him, "Make sure you know somebody. You know those abokis are always against Southerners blah, blah, blah". Well, I got in on the first list. I knew only God.

UNILAG:At Akoka, people pay millions to get into Medicine/Dental Surgery. Their admissions cut off mark list is more or less them fulfilling "Social righteousness" so to say.

Sure, some people would get in on merit, but how many? Is it with their style of Post UTME that seems the devil himself descended to design the model?.

Infact, I quizzed a friend who studies Medicine there now on how he prepared for their PUTME. He told me he had to buy a JAMB Government past question and several types of Current affairs pamphlets just to ace their exam.

Laudable effort, I agree. However, can you just imagine?

How about their Foundation/Diploma students? You know how much they pay? And there one is, spending at most N10,000(including registration in cafes for UTME and PUTME). One can't possibly expect them to admit one over them.

I have a neighbor whose father had to part with N700,000 for him to get a space in Law. On transit to 200L, I think they reviewed his results and found him missing Yoruba, he losed his admission. Baba took the UTME again and is currently in part 3 studying English Language. UNILAG is money and connection for the most part, if one has any of those, one is by all means good to go.

LASU: A friend's friend(who comes from Ogun State) applied there for Medicine some two years ago and heard nothing from that school up till date. He had 300+ at that time. Today, that fellow is now at Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto studying Medicine.

UI: University of Ibadan is by far the most transparent federal University in Nigeria. If you merit your admission, there's no witch or villager that would usurp what the almighty has perfected.

However, the competition. It is at UI you see Olympiad winners, Best Students at NECO and WAEC, people who have experience with A-Levels. This is where majority of them come. However, this is not to scare you, if it's Dental Surgery/Medicine at UI you want, you can by all means get it.

Now, only a few persons know UI past questions get leaked. How else can one explain a person scoring 92 in UI Post UTME. You can't just up and achieve that feat, it's the University of Ibadan.

I have a hunch those tutorial guys(Team tutors, Abadina; Apex Tutorials, Agbowo, et al.) have these questions. How do they get them? When their students go in for the PUTME, they tell them to memorize some of these questions, see, simple.

When it's time for their PUTME tutorials, I'd advice you be on campus for them, it would go a long way.

Also, the covertly aspect is this. Some students are given a sort of edge; a back door. If they fall couple of marks below the cut off mark, they are given a sort of waiver, provided the student is an offspring of and has thesame surname as a senior staff such as a Professor. I got to know about this at the UI UG-Admissions office last year when I went on enquiry for a friend.



Conclusively, all of these I have written are not an hallmark or a sort of yardstick and should not be regarded as one.

I do not know the innings of things that occur in various admissions offices across universities in Nigeria, all of the above are guesstimates.

Yet, we've got a God who can do the seemingly impossible. Do your part and do it very well.

My heart goes out to you all. It's hard, I know. You've come far and I applaud you.

Just pray, hope, follow your heart/intuition and do not be anxious for anything.

I wish you guys the very best.

Yours.


PS: Usman Danfodio recently began their Dental Surgery program. Not a lot of people know about this. You might want to do some findings.

How transparent is unical in giving admission to study med surg?
I'm from Southsout

Zeeknow3245:
Lol Lasu Does it ooo, some schools do it, I swear

Yeah, but the person won't gain admission, they will just chop the screening money

MrEgghead:
Many entered without connection.

Few entered their desired course without connection, whereas people with lesser aggregate entered without stress cause they have connection.

Xandre:
Lol
Pray,tell one Nigerian school without connection palava?
People plenty wey no know anybody but still manage to enter.

Maybe the 325 guy became complacent in the post utme.

Uniben own is too much, fear that school.

Zeeknow3245:
I doubt dude. Most Doctors are there for job security because, Medicine is one of the jobs you can do till you are old and fill fufilled. Goodluck bro. No join do strike ooo

Do what is best for you and stop trying to act as if you know all the fundamentals of life boy.

DarkPheonix:
Few entered their desired course without connection, whereas people with lesser aggregate entered without stress cause they have connection.

it occurs in every institution in Nigeria, not just UNIBEN..

blazer90707:
Of course nothing is easy. Dedication and diligence makes the difference , at least is better to have a bsc than sitting at home writing jamb year in year out.or better still what @officiallyme is doing i.e keep on trying while studying your BMS course. A bird at hand they say is worth more thousands in the bush.

True tho. Btw pardon moi but which institution(s) would u suggest one picks for DE

DarkPheonix:
Uniben own is too much, fear that school.

Especially when you're affiliated with professors or Lecturers..My class has about 12 students that I know of who are sons and daughters of professors..But many of us still entered without knowing anybody..Atleast 70% of entered without knowing anybody... Don't make it sound like if you don't have connection you can't gain Medicine...

DarkPheonix:
Uniben own is too much, fear that school.

Especially when you're affiliated with professors or Lecturers..My class has about 12 students that I know of who are sons and daughters of professors..But many of us still entered without knowing anybody..Atleast 70% of us entered without knowing anybody... Don't make it sound like if you don't have connection you can't gain admission.

klose4life:
do u know about that of unizik and LASU.?

No, u cant buy their form. You will be seeing something like "ur reg no is not found". Also, Lasu does not write post utme.

MrEgghead:
Especially when you're affiliated with professors or Lecturers..My class has about 12 students that I know of who are sons and daughters of professors..But many of us still entered without knowing anybody..Atleast 70% of entered without knowing anybody... Don't make it sound like if you don't have connection you can't gain Medicine...

Well if about 70% entered without knowing anybody then it is a bit fair. But the thing there is that uniben admission is not transparent, with the school not releasing cut off mark, news of people paying those working at the cbt to upgrade their score, or transfer them to other course.

DarkPheonix:
Well if about 70% entered without knowing anybody then it is a bit fair. But the thing there is that uniben admission is not transparent, with the school not releasing cut off mark, news of people paying those working at the cbt to upgrade their score, or transfer them to other course.

The only dark side is not releasing 'Cut off points" officially like UI and some schools...But the truth is, if you go to admission office to ask, they will tell you...When I went there, they told me 77 for merit and I noticed all of us that crossed 77 in our WhatsApp group chat then were admitted..Not a single person was left out.. Though people still came in via catchment and Elds with few marks below that...If you beat the "purported cut off point", you'll definitely gain admission...The question is how many will beat it?
The cut off points for schools that admit based on quota are always high because of those slots set aside for the highly connected people..That's the system we find ourselves.

MrEgghead:
The only dark side is not releasing 'Cut off points" officially like UI and some schools...But the truth is, if you go to admission office to ask, they will tell you...When I went there, they told me 77 for merit and I noticed all of us that crossed 77 in our WhatsApp group chat then were admitted..Not a single person was left out.. Though people still came in via catchment and Elds with few marks below that...If you beat the "purported cut off point", you'll definitely gain admission...The question is how many will beat it?
The cut off points for schools that admit based on quota are always high because of those slots set aside for the highly connected people..That's the system we find ourselves.

Thanks for this, I feel more enlightened about uniben now.

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Oluwaseun1995:
Okay, I think I can answer your question,
Last year before I did change of institution to UNIPORT, it was UNICAL I initially chose, UNICAL admission quota for Medicine and Surgery is 100, and they admitted about 168 candidates last year.

And as for their exam, basic mathematics, chemistry, Physics, biology and use of English for Medical Aspirants. And their cut off was 292... Exam is 40 questions, each question carries 10 marks. The reason why I changed from UNICAL was because I had 280 in the PUTME, and 300 in Jamb bringing my aggregate to 290. So I had to do change of institution quickly to UNIPORT where I'm studying Medicine and Surgery presently

Emblematic. See how lucky and smart you are.
Most aspirants don't know this stuff of changing school when it doesn't fit your narrative. See how you switched from unical to Uniport and still got what you wanted. But some aspirants ehn. No ó when when they know they are below cut off will still choose to stay in one place. Later on will come and complain that they have been looking for MBBS admission for the past 10 years.

ShahRukhKhan:
Emblematic. See how lucky and smart you are.
Most aspirants don't know this stuff of changing school when it doesn't fit your narrative. See how you switched from unical to Uniport and still got what you wanted. But some aspirants ehn. No ó when when they know they are below cut off will still choose to stay in one place. Later on will come and complain that they have been looking for MBBS admission for the past 10 years.

He was smart and had money, if you don't have money O.Y.O. you think its small money to buy post ume form 4k, travel to and fro to calabar (which is about 18K) plus 5K to lodge. After putme u will check unical post ume result with 1k card.Then it didn't click the he went to do coc N3500 and bought uniport post utme 4k and travelled to port Harcourt to and fro (let's say 12k assuming he stays in Lagos) and he will lodge again 5k. add all this, I didn't even add miscellaneous.

Can 222 jamb score grant me dentistry in unijos.