What you are going to
read in this article will keep you dumbfounded for a while, but you just have
to get used to uncommon truths. Now to the crux of the matter.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the cut
off marks for Nigerian tertiary institutions while also lifting the ban for
post UTME examination. Rather than increasing or maintaining the existing cut
off mark for universities (180), the board slashed it to a mind-blowing figure.
According to Premium Times, these decisions were taken at the 2017
Combined Policy Meetings on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria
which ended on Tuesday, August 22.
Below are the new cut off marks for all tertiary institutions in the
country:
1. The
minimum cut off mark for universities - 120
2. For
Polytechnics and Colleges of Education - 100
3. For
Innovative Enterprising Institutes - 110
However, institutions were allowed to raise their cut off marks
above JAMB’s stipulation.
Other things agreed on are:
1. Admissions
into public degree awarding institutions for the 2017 UTME examination
will end on 15th January, 2018 while private institutions will end theirs
on 31st January, 2018.
2. Decisions
on first choice candidates by universities are expected to be completed by
October 15, and second choice candidates will end on December 15.
3. The
rest of the students seeking admission will be available for other
institutions till the January closing dates.
JAMB's registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, said a Central Admission Processing
System (CAPS) will be used to streamline admission processes among institutions
based on challenges associated with the former approach. One of these
challenges he noted was the problem of illegal admission:
About 17,160 students were admitted without JAMB across institutions in Nigeria.
According to him, the new process allows the registrar to approve all
candidates.
NOTE: The Federal Government has given
all tertiary institutions the freedom to conduct screening or post UTME
exercise for candidates seeking admission into any institution.